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SoftRAID 3.6.6 formated disk cannot boot Intel servers - only in my case???

Hi there,


Short question:
Do you have a working setup with an intel server capable of booting off of a SoftRAID  formated disk?

Long description:
I am currently setting up a brand new 2.3 GHz Intel xserve with 10.5 server.

The server has three disk:
1. Three partitions (Boot live, Boot update test, Boot maintenance)
2. One partition (Apple Disk Utility made)  running 10.5.2 server
3. Not used now (to be second part of a mirror)

The server was originally installed on disk 2 and that is working as expedted.

The plan is the to clone that OS to a SoftRAID created mirror (made of disk 1 & 3).

The problem is that I am not able to boot from my clone if the partition is made with SoftRAID.

If I use SoftRAID to convert the cloned partition back to "Apple Disk Utility Format" then it boots just fine, but as soon as I have converted back to the SoftRAID format it's unbootable.

I have cloned using Disk Utility as well as CCC 3.1, (but this seems irrelevant according to the above fact ;)


- I have tried to recreate the boot cache (even though SoftRAID does this as part of the conversion process).
Doing this in the terminal reveals intersting debug information:
einstein:~ sysadmin$ sudo kextcache -f -v 3 -u /Volumes/Boot\ live
Password:
kextcache: /Volumes/Boot live: error getting description from Disk Arbitration


- The volumes UUID are all different so that's not the problem


- The command "diskutil info /Volumes/Boot\ live" also describes the bootability as I experience it:
Bootable:                 Not bootable, can be made bootable safely


- TvE
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