I have built a vanilla box, installed fog and restored my configuration … and it all worked! I was able to boot via pxe and uefi on the first try of each.
I will chalk this up to both the blank mysql password and a miss named bzImage file. As it is all working with the “bad” backup config, I will ask that this ticket be closed. One day, if I’m bored enough, I’ll try another restore again and see if it will fail.
Thank you for all the help! It is greatly appreciated.