10.3 Server new install won't boot from Mirrored RAID - HELP!!

Hi all,
I had 10.3 Server running fine on a 450 MHz B&W G3 (home server use, nothing too demanding), when I decided to add a 2nd HD and run the server from a RAID mirror (both 80GB drives). I had problems enabling RAID on the boot drive with diskutil in Terminal, so I decided to rebuild the server. I didn't have much besides the system on it, so backing up data and re-installing isn't a big ordeal (or so I thought).
No problems creating the mirror set once I re-formatted the drives. The install seemed to go fine (10.3.4 on install disk), but upon restart, I got the flashing system folder/question mark. When booting from the install disk, Disk Utility recognizes the RAID, and Startup Disk recognizes the mirror as a viable boot drive and allows me to select it and restart. Same problem, no system found.
When I run diskutil info for the mirror, it lists the mirror volume as Not Bootable.
I've checked the disks with both Disk Utility and DiskWarrior - all looks OK. I've reset PRAM and NVRAM, taken out added PCI cards, and disconnected all FW and USB devices (besides kbd and mouse).
Unfortunately, B&W G3 can't boot from an external FW drive, so I'm stuck with booting from a CD/DVD for troubleshooting.
My next step is to re-install on a single drive again and try to enable RAID and mirror, but I'd sure like to avoid that if I could.
I've searched through this board and didn't really see this particular situation. Any of you smart server folks seen this before -- any ideas or suggestions??
TIA,
Brad
B&W G3 Mac OS X (10.3.4) 450 MHz, 10.3 Server, 80GB RAID mirror

if you backup your data from a NON-RAID Drive (Single drive), create a RAID array and then Restore from the backup you created... you will find you cannot boot from the drive.
Apparently the sector or drive header information in a non-RAID drive is different than in a RAID array... so when you restore the backup data from the non-RAID drive to the new RAID Array; you effectively corrupt the RAID array not allowing it to be booted from.
The solution is to create the RAID array and then re-install your system from scratch... copying over the data you want to keep from your initial backup one file at a time (don't do a complete system copy or you will once again, corrupt your new RAID install).
I had the same problem and it took me a great deal of time to figure it out.
Joe

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