Problems stting up RAID (Mirror) for boot drive.

I have a Mac that I want to setup mirroring on the boot drive (it's running Mac OS X Server and once I get everything going I need to minimize downtime).
Since you can't move a drive with data into a raid set I first cloned the boot drive to a 3rd drive, booted off that drive, then set the two 80gb drives up as a mirror. after cloning the data from drive #3 back to the now mirrored pair I can't boot off the mirror.
I've tried using both the Startup Disk preferences and also the bless command to mark the raid as the device I want to boot from but it doesn't recognize it as a bootable device.
What do I need to do to make the raid bootable?
thanks,
Bill

The drive I want to boot off (the mirror) is "Macintosh HD"
The temporary drive it's running on now is "Macintosh HD 0"
Both drives show up in the startup items preference panel, I have "Macintosh HD" selected. When I hit restart it fails to recognize it as bootable and fails back to the other one.
I'm not sure which folder you want the permissions set on. Here's what it looks like right now.
<pre>
viking:~ user1$ ls -l /Volumes/
total 8
drwxrwxr-t 32 root admin 1190 May 19 01:16 Macintosh HD
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1 May 19 01:19 Macintosh HD 0 -> /
viking:~ user1$ ls -la /
total 18275
drwxrwxr-t 32 root admin 1190 May 19 01:19 .
drwxrwxr-t 32 root admin 1190 May 19 01:19 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 administ admin 12292 May 18 09:15 .DS_Store
d-wx-wx-wt 2 root admin 68 May 18 01:50 .Trashes
-rw------- 1 root wheel 131072 Apr 24 11:38 .hotfiles.btree
-rw------- 1 root admin 1024 Apr 6 22:31 .rnd
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 128 May 19 01:19 .vol
drwxrwxr-x 38 root admin 1292 May 8 01:33 Applications
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 3584 May 19 00:19 Desktop DB
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 2 Apr 6 23:15 Desktop DF
drwxrwxr-x 3 administ admin 102 Apr 6 23:08 Groups
drwxrwxr-t 48 root admin 1632 Apr 14 00:59 Library
drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 512 May 19 01:20 Network
drwxrwxr-x 5 administ admin 170 Apr 7 00:43 Shared Items
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 May 8 08:59 System
drwxrwxr-t 11 root admin 374 Apr 7 02:22 Users
drwxrwxrwt 4 root admin 136 May 19 01:19 Volumes
drwxr-xr-x 4 root admin 136 Apr 6 22:32 automount
drwxr-xr-x 40 root wheel 1360 Apr 6 23:26 bin
drwxrwxr-t 2 root admin 68 Jul 1 2006 cores
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 May 19 01:19 dev
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 11 May 18 01:07 etc -> private/etc
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 9 May 19 01:19 mach -> /mach.sym
-r--r--r-- 1 root admin 615584 May 19 01:19 mach.sym
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 8557728 Feb 22 21:58 mach_kernel
drwxrwxrwx 2 administ admin 68 Apr 18 15:04 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jul 25 2006 opt
drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 204 May 19 01:19 private
drwxr-xr-x 63 root wheel 2142 May 8 01:33 sbin
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 11 May 18 01:26 tmp -> private/tmp
drwxr-xr-x 10 root wheel 340 May 1 23:10 usr
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 11 May 18 01:48 var -> private/var
viking:~ user1$ ls -la /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD
total 18272
drwxrwxr-t 32 root admin 1190 May 19 01:16 .
drwxrwxrwt 4 root admin 136 May 19 01:19 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 administ admin 12292 May 19 00:56 .DS_Store
d-wx-wx-wt 3 root admin 102 May 19 01:20 .Trashes
-rw------- 1 root wheel 131072 Apr 24 11:38 .hotfiles.btree
-rw------- 1 root admin 1024 Apr 6 22:31 .rnd
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 68 May 18 13:19 .vol
drwxr-xr-x 38 root admin 1292 May 19 00:32 Applications
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 3584 May 19 00:19 Desktop DB
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 2 Apr 6 23:15 Desktop DF
drwxrwxr-x 3 administ admin 102 Apr 6 23:08 Groups
drwxrwxr-t 48 root admin 1632 Apr 14 00:59 Library
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 68 May 18 13:45 Network
drwxrwxr-x 5 administ admin 170 Apr 7 00:43 Shared Items
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 May 8 08:59 System
drwxrwxr-t 11 root admin 374 Apr 7 02:22 Users
drwxrwxrwt 2 root admin 68 May 18 13:19 Volumes
drwxr-xr-x 4 root admin 136 Apr 6 22:32 automount
drwxr-xr-x 40 root wheel 1360 May 19 01:13 bin
drwxrwxr-t 2 root admin 68 Jul 1 2006 cores
drwxr-xr-x 2 root admin 68 May 19 01:16 dev
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 11 May 19 01:16 etc -> private/etc
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 9 May 18 13:45 mach -> /mach.sym
-r--r--r-- 1 root staff 615584 May 18 11:34 mach.sym
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 8557728 Feb 22 21:58 mach_kernel
drwxrwxrwx 2 administ admin 68 Apr 18 15:04 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jul 25 2006 opt
drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 204 May 18 11:34 private
drwxr-xr-x 63 root wheel 2142 May 19 01:13 sbin
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 11 May 19 01:16 tmp -> private/tmp
drwxr-xr-x 10 administ staff 340 May 1 23:10 usr
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 11 May 19 01:16 var -> private/var
</pre>
MacBook Pro 2.0ghz, 2gb ram / MacMini 1.83, 2gb ram Mac OS X (10.4.9) Compaq DL380 (Gentoo Linux). Tatung U10 (Sparc, Solaris)
MacBook Pro 2.0ghz, 2gb ram / MacMini 1.83, 2gb ram Mac OS X (10.4.9) Compaq DL380 (Gentoo Linux). Tatung U10 (Sparc, Solaris)

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<CFBasicHash 0x100601210 [0x7fff702c5f20]>{type = mutable dict, count = 3,
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How can I have both installed, but boot from the SATA?

Quote from: Maesus on 12-January-07, 22:56:07
can you change the HDD sequence in the BIOS ? Pick the HDD you wanna boot as the 1st HDD.
No, I cannot choose the HDD. If the both the SATA and IDE is physically installed, the SATA does not show .
However if I press F11 during the boot, both the ARE listed. Using F11 to boot, I have booted from the SATA. The IDE shows in WinXP as a "disk drive." I rebooted to see if any subsequent boots would you the SATA (thinking that the F11 function sets it as default), but the boot was with the IDE.

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