Mac mini: OS can not "see" second HDD.

Hello:
Through a series of unfortunate events I messed up the partition table of my Mac mini server. The OS can not "see" one of the 02 HDDs included in this mini server. Even trying to install the OS from the original DVD fails to see the second HDD, which used to have the boot partition and most of my data.
I boot up using the DVD into Disk Utilities, then I use the Terminal utility:
diskutil list
/dev/disk0 => 500 GB
/dev/disk1 => 500 GB
Please see screenshots here:
http://www.nihpo.com/static/images/01.jpg
http://www.nihpo.com/static/images/02.jpg
But here seems to be the problem:
/dev/disk2 => 1.3 GB
And partition "2" in this disk has the label "Apple_HFS Mac OS X Base System"
Shouldn't partition disk0s2 have the label "Apple_HFS Mac OS X Base System" instead?
Running OS X 10.8
Any suggestions on how to get the OS to "see" and boot from partition disk0s2 will be appreciated. Thanks.

And partition "2" in this disk has the label "Apple_HFS Mac OS X Base System"
Shouldn't partition disk0s2 have the label "Apple_HFS Mac OS X Base System" instead?
I'm not on 10.8 to be certain right now, but I don't think so...
diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     Apple_partition_scheme                        *596.2 Gi   disk0
   1:        Apple_partition_map                         31.5 Ki    disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_Boot Boot OSX                128.0 Mi   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_RAID                         596.0 Gi   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     Apple_partition_scheme                        *596.2 Gi   disk1
   1:        Apple_partition_map                         31.5 Ki    disk1s1
   2:                 Apple_Boot Boot OSX                128.0 Mi   disk1s2
   3:                 Apple_RAID                         596.0 Gi   disk1s3
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     Apple_partition_scheme                        *1.8 Ti     disk2
   1:        Apple_partition_map                         31.5 Ki    disk2s1
   2:             Apple_Driver43                         28.0 Ki    disk2s2
   3:             Apple_Driver43                         28.0 Ki    disk2s3
   4:           Apple_Driver_ATA                         28.0 Ki    disk2s4
   5:           Apple_Driver_ATA                         28.0 Ki    disk2s5
   6:             Apple_FWDriver                         256.0 Ki   disk2s6
   7:         Apple_Driver_IOKit                         256.0 Ki   disk2s7
   8:              Apple_Patches                         256.0 Ki   disk2s8
   9:                  Apple_HFS Mac OS X Install DVD    16.0 Gi    disk2s10
10:                  Apple_HFS Tiger                   825.0 Gi   disk2s12
11:                  Apple_HFS Leopard                 1021.6 Gi disk2s14
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