Since the apache crashes did not correlate with the no directory or file errors I double checked everything attached to our workbench and…
Found out one of my engineers had a test box attached to our workbench that was set for no reply to ICMP so I did not catch it had been static’d to 10.0.0.250 as well. Flipped it over to DHCP and now PXE boot works consistently.
Sorry and thank you for your time!