Changing the boot partition

Had to rebuild my OS after a electric transient zapped it. Have three issues I am trying to solve:
1. Do not access to all of my System Prepferences from the top level apple menu. I am denied acess to itmes like Network, Security,e.g.
2. I can only exit mal by forcing it to close.
3. I am thinking that if I boot from Macintosh HD instead of patportable-pc.local it might fix 1 & 2.

Well, I would be perfectly willing to give you the info you need, but I don't know how to do it in windows. >_< So help me help you to help me .
EDIT: Before I installed windows, I had Arch and Ubuntu installed. After installing Arch completley, ubuntu stopped working, so Arch became my primary, and I installed Windows on the Ubuntu partition. I haven't used Arch in a while, so my memory is a bit cloudy.
Last edited by ucal (2010-04-21 17:54:01)

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Its been a long while since I had to dual-boot with windows on the same machine.
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I've managed to boot into arch successfully and later into windows also successfully.... but when i tried to boot into arch again I wasn't greeted with the typical GRUB boot screen... grub was ignored completely and win7 booting began as if it was the only OS in my hard drive.
I've used the gparted live cd and realized that the boot flag has changed from my /boot partition (sda1) to my windows partition (sda2). I've changed it back and I was able to boot into arch again. but when I rebooted to win7 and then to arch the same thing has happened. The boot flag keeps changing whenever im rebooting into windows making impossible for me to boot with GRUB unles I manually change the flag again.
I haven't installed GRUB into the MBR because I hear it is a bad practice when you have a windows OS also installed (something with service packs not being able to install, among other things). I also don't want to use the easyBCD method to boot arch using the win7 loader.
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What am I doing wrong and how do i prevent the boot flag from changing?
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Last edited by kamigr (2010-01-12 14:35:07)

naequs wrote:
bumping this because i have the EXACT same problem !
however i installed grub to sda1 because i didnt want my installs to mess with each other (not that ive had any problems with grub in mbr though...) .
this just looked cleaner to me.
if anyone has figured out how to prevent windows from automagically changing the bootgflag, id like to know !
but maybe this is a question more suitable for a windoze forum
tia
/edit: seriously, ive been searching the net for some time now, including irc chans and there seems to be no solution to this ! all threads similar to this just end dead !
i hate how windows claims to own my computer!
1. don't necrobump
2. as mentioned in the thread, just install grub to mbr and chainload windows. It works just fine and is the easiest way to get it working reliable.

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Harold asked a perfectly reasonable and necessary question, but how is that a Solution ???
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