Can't boot into windows (Bootcamp) anymore?
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The boot menu no longer comes up during restart ever since I updated the EFI and from 10.8.1 to 10.8.2.
When I try to reboot from the preferences menu, I get this message:
http://i47.tinypic.com/rvkho4.png
As far as I can tell, the disk and the two partitions are in order:
http://i49.tinypic.com/vxi0lx.png
http://i50.tinypic.com/2gy9lc0.png
http://i50.tinypic.com/fxsdht.png
When I try to use the Option key during boot-up method, it fails to bring up the boot menu.
What happened? Did my use of rEFInd somehow cause this?
Last edit: Doggonit 2012-09-20
Alright, so I can use the Alt/Option key to bring up the stock boot menu again, and now I can access the Bootcamp partition (i.e. Windows 7 Pro installation) again. But rEFInd definitely stopped working and the Startup Disk menu in the System Preferences menu still gives me that same error message as in the screen capture posted above.
According to an Apple senior tech (and I quote), I "cannot 'bless' the drive because the partition table was modified by something after the disk was changed to NTFS file system."
Is this rEFInd interfering here?
rEFInd does not change disk partitioning -- but if you've installed gptsync and accessed it from rEFInd's menu, that could change the partitioning.
Updating the firmware can definitely change your boot options, on just about any platform, so that's likely the initial cause of the problem. The question is how to fix it. I recommend you read the rEFInd documentation page on installing rEFInd, paying particular attention to the Mac OS X instructions and the text-mode bless command. Alternatively, you could re-install it using the installation script.