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[lixuelai]

refit somehow stopped working on my 2.4GHz Unibody MBP. Tried reinstalling to no avail. It just goes straight into OSX and I have to hold down option to get the default Mac OS selector. Tried reinstalling everything and still no go. Here is my partition analyzer output:

*** Report for internal hard disk ***

Current GPT partition table:
#      Start LBA      End LBA  Type
1             40       409639  EFI System (FAT)
2         409640    312623143  Mac OS X HFS+
3      312887296    625141759  Basic Data

Current MBR partition table:
# A    Start LBA      End LBA  Type
1              1       409639  ee  EFI Protective
2         409640    312623143  af  Mac OS X HFS+
3 *    312887296    625141759  07  NTFS/HPFS

MBR contents:
Boot Code: Unknown, but bootable

Partition at LBA 40:
Boot Code: None (Non-system disk message)
File System: FAT32
Listed in GPT as partition 1, type EFI System (FAT)

Partition at LBA 409640:
Boot Code: None
File System: HFS Extended (HFS+)
Listed in GPT as partition 2, type Mac OS X HFS+
Listed in MBR as partition 2, type af  Mac OS X HFS+

Partition at LBA 312887296:
Boot Code: Windows BOOTMGR (Vista)
File System: NTFS
Listed in GPT as partition 3, type Basic Data
Listed in MBR as partition 3, type 07  NTFS/HPFS, active

[ludacrisvp]

this is most likely caused by using the bootcamp selector from inside windows to reboot into osx, or from inside osx using the utility that chooses your boot device.
simple solution:
Never use the 2 methods above to reboot your system into the other OS unless you want to break rEFIt.
Always use Start --> shutdown/restart/hibernate/sleep whichever you need or Apple menu --> shutdown/restart/sleep.
To fix your rEFIt just go to the drive you installed it to (most likely Macintosh HD) and open the EFI folder and open the rEFIt folder and look for "enable-always.sh"
now open Terminal and drag and drop "enable-always.sh" into Terminal
Terminal will need your root password, enter it then reboot and you will see rEFIt.

[attania09]

Hmm,  thats strange.  Can you boot into win7 by holding down the option key?  rEFIt does some strange things sometimes.  When I had it installed in a very similar situation it would always show two windows drives.  I wonder if chameleons boot loader would work for you.

[ludacrisvp]

NO! you never ever put a hackintosh bootloader such as  chameleon on a real mac! it will screw up your boot up.
he should be able to boot to win7 by holding option key the win7 bootloader is installed to the efi style "reserved partition" that will be the one to boot from.