X-Serve refuses to boot from HDD

Hi!
Short version: We have an X-serve, a later Xeon but not the latest that for some reason refuses to boot from any internal HDD both original Apple branded 80GBs and newer ones that works fine in other X-Serves we have.
Full:
The X-Serve was delivered with 10.5 but in order to use the OD with some other servers that runs on 10.6 I took out the org drive and put in a newer 750GB drive that we use in the other X-Serves and some MacPros with no problems.
This problematic X-Serve boots happily on the OS-X Server installer DVD. I format/partition the 750GB drive and installs 10.6 server on it. After installation and reboot it refuses to boot from the newly installed HDD.
I initially thought that the PRAM battery was out but If try bless -- info running on the installer DVD it correctly indentify the 750 drive and blessed system folder. I can also set it and the machine sets and reads the bless info. I can put in a cloned system drive (80GB original Apple HDD) from another identical X-Serve and it refuses to boot from it even if bless again reports a correct path and folder to the cloned 80GB drive.
I have also tried to install a 10.5 server system from the very DVD that the server was delivered with without luck.
Left to do is to install a new system on USB drive/stick or FW drive. But to be able to use the machine in production we cannot rely on external HDD of course.
So I'm open to suggestions and ideas – what can I do to get it up and running booting on HDD?
Could it still be a battery issue?
Regards, Per Mattsson
[email protected] – www.miun.se

I would be trying to boot off an external FW or USB drive as you mentioned, as a troubleshooting measure. If you can, use an external drive enclosure and install one of the drives from an internal drive carrier into that enclosure. I have seen drive carriers go bad, or it could be something more serious like logic board issue.

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Macbook Pro 15" non retina mid 2012 2.7 GHz 8GB RAM
Hi,
A while ago I partitioned my hard drive and installed Windows 7. I use it for gaming and eventually decided I would swap my superdrive out for a SSD so Windows could run on it’s own drive.
So I now have two drives, the original Seagate Momentus XT 750GB hybrid, and a new Samsung 840 EVO SSD 1TB. Ideally I would like Windows 7 on the SSD, in the optical drive bay and OSX on the hybrid in the primary bay. My only reason for that position is that I believe the hybrid would be less prone to overheating in the primary bay. However, after a bit of research I believe Windows will only boot from the primary bay so I can live with either.
So far I have managed to boot Windows (on the SSD) from the primary bay. Works well. It would not complete booting from the optical bay.
OSX on the hybrid (this is my original drive before this upgrade) boots fine as usual from the primary but will NOT boot from the optical bay. I get the apple and loading wheel only.
A clone of that OSX on an old HDD will boot fine from the optical bay. When I booted from this drive in the primary bay I can see both the SSD and the hybrid if I have them in the optical bay and system profiler reads them well.
So my first question is; does anyone have any experience or knowledge of Momentus XT’s not working in the optical bay? I believe they had some firmware updates years ago but my drive has always ran very well until I tried it from the optical bay.
My second question is; does anyone know if it is possible to persuade my macbook pro to boot Windows from the optical drive?
Many thanks.

Well I suppose it looks like 6gb/s connection from the optical drive connection cannot be achieved on my mid 2012 model. Would be nice to know if anyone else has achieved it...

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