Trouble booting off fibre array

I am having trouble getting my Xserve to boot off my Promise Fibre array. I have done the following steps:
1. installed on the internal drive and can see the fibre slice mounted
2. I did a Carbon Copy Clone to the fibre partition
3. Selected the fibre partition as the boot drive and rebooted
The fibre partition is also present if i were to run the installer from dvd. I'm stumped on what i can do.
Here are the specs that i'm trying to make work:
OS: Mac OSX Server 10.6
CPU: 2 x 2.66 Xeon Xserve
Ram: 18Gb
Fibre Card: LSI7204EP /w 4Gb cable
Fibre Array: Promise 32-bay Array
Fibre Switch: Qlogic 2Gb
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Jason

Jason
AFAIK you can't install an OS (using the normal methods) or boot from a fibre attached RAID.
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