G5 Won't boot from new drive...

Hi all,
I just installed a new 1TB SATA HD into bay 'B' of my G5/1.8, to replace the original 250G drive in bay 'A' as my primary HD. After making a disk image of the original 250G drive, I successfully restored it to the new terrabyte drive, HOWEVER:
The computer refuses to boot off of it.
When I boot off my Powerbook running 10.4.11 (in disk target mode), startup disk recognizes the drive as a valid choice. However, when I select that system folder and restart, I get the flashing question mark.
To make matters weirder, when I boot off a CD containing 10.3.4, the included startup disk program does NOT recognize the drive as legitimate. I tried using terminal to set the drive using the "bless" command, to no avail. What am I doing wrong? Any ideas?

Try starting up while holding down the Option key. This will bring up +Startup Manager+ where you can select from all available bootable volumes. Hopefully, you can select the new hard drive.
Also, the +startup volume+ parameter is stored in PRAM. You should try resetting PRAM.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
If those steps do not work, check the +Partition Map Scheme+ of the new hard drive. If it was previously formatted, it may be something other than +Apple Partition Map+, such as +Master Boot Record+ or +GUID Partition Table+.
You can check by running Disk Utility; if you select the hard drive (not the volume under the drive) in the sidebar, the +Partition Map Scheme+ will be shown at the bottom of the window. For a PowerPC Mac, the +Partition Map Scheme+ must be +Apple Partition Map+ for the drive to be bootable.
If it is not +Apple Partition Map+, you can change it by re-partitioning the hard drive on the Disk Utility Partition tab. Reset the +Volume Scheme+ and click on the Options button. This will obviously erase the hard drive.

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