Re Install on New Drive wont reboot (mostly)

Im going mad...
We have had to move our mail server to another system and I have put a brand new drive in the xserve and done a clean install of Server 10.5 did all the updates etc. If I restart the Xserve, I get the mac icon and then it changes to a circle with a slash through it and just sits there.
If I leave it for about 10 minutes it sometimes actually boots up but mostly it doesn't.
I thought it may be the hard drive, so I used another new one, different brand and I get the same thing. If I put the old original drive back in, it boots up just fine.
Why doesnt it like any of my drives to reboot.?
If I boot up of the DVD and goto disc utils, the drive is there. Do a reapir permissions and repair disc (nothing wrong), yet still it wont boot reliably
Any Suggestions?
Cheers
Tony

Boot in 'verbose' mode, hold 'Cmd-v'. When the server starts, watch the messages on-screen for clues as to what's hanging the boot process.
-Or-
Boot off the DVD. Go to the 'Utilities' menu. Select 'Terminal...'. Then do:
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