Dual-Boot Macbook

I'm trying to dual boot OS X and arch on my macbook, but whenever I try and boot into arch I just get a "Missing Operating System" error that I can't seem to fix. Any ideas?
EDIT: I think it's a problem with the way refit is syncing the gpt/mbr partition tables. Is there an alternate way to do this?
Last edited by Stythys (2009-04-20 02:00:10)

So, I have a new error...
"Non-System Disk. Press any key to reboot."
...any ideas? =/
EDIT: Solved. Moved Grub to the root partition of arch.
Last edited by Stythys (2009-04-21 19:24:20)

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