Server only boots to one drive of three

We have a 3 drive bay xserve that has bootalbe drive and a mirror of the bootable drive.   We can only get the server to boot to the mirror.  If we select the other drive to boot to using system preferences or holding the option key to select.  It will always boot to mirror drive.  It will boot to the other drive if we remove the mirror drive.  So we erase the mirror drive and and mirror the drive again, but the same problems comes back.  We have three servers like that so far.  Any ideas will be helpful

Welcome to iDVD Discussions.
it won't let me choose which one to use
Hold down the Control key when you click on the Burn icon.
But Fred's suggestion of a disk image is a better process.
File/Save as Disc Image...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/6.0/en/18.html
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/image_to_diskstone.html
This will isolate any encoding/burning issues you may encounter. Once the disc image is created, double-click the .img and burn the virtual disc that should appear on your desktop, using Toast to burn the DVD. Disk Utility to burn the .img file. Usually, you can select a burning speed in Disk Utility.
There are variations to this process based on which OS X you are using...
Open Disk Utility (in Utilities folder in Applications folder), click on the virtual disc (maybe the .img) in the left-hand window. Click the Burn icon. A new window should drop down and your SuperDrive tray will open after clicking the Burn icon. Insert a recordable DVD. (Verbatim DVD-R preferred by me.) Click the Close button. Wait. Select a burn speed. If you hold your mouse cursor over the pop-up it says: "Select a slower speed to work around burn failures," so select 4x or slower for best results. Then click the Burn button.
-->If the virtual disk selection won't allow you to click the Burn icon, use the .img file instead. This may have changed in 10.3.9 and did change in Tiger.
Also, you can use DVD Player to play the virtual disk to check your iDVD project before burning to DVD. Launch DVD Player. File/Open VIDEO_TS (Open DVD Media... in Player 4.6). Find the VIDEO_TS folder and open that. (The audio folder is for DVD-Audio disks.)
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