Okay, we got everything sorted out and I'm up and running. Apparently grub was messed up. I could press Esc and then manually select the PVE kernel. So after it was booted I checked grub and it was set to boot the correct drive # groot=(hd0,0) so I typed in "update-grub" and that fixed the problem of booting. Why it needed that I don't know.
Thanks Dietmar for pointing me in the right direction via the support ticket. I have all my local storage added (7.3TB) and am going to rack it next week in our datacenter. I'm then going to migrate my ESXi 3.5 VM's to it and then pull those old boxes.