GRUB won't start after installation. Boots direktly to Windows 7

Hello,
I am having a hard time installing Arch next to Windows 7 on an UEFI Notebook.
The partitions of the HDD (GPT) looks like this:
sda1 Boot partition, fat32, 400 MiB. Mounted as GRUB Wiki says at /boot/efi
sda2 swap
sda3 Arch
sda4 Windows 7
First I install Windows 7 which workes without problems.
After that is done I start installing Arch. All goes well without any errors till the end.
For installing GRUB I use
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=arch_grub --recheck
and
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Both finish without errors.
First problem is os-prober never mangaged to find Windows 7 by itself. Not once in 6 installation retries.
Second problem. After I finished installtation and rebooting, GRUB doesn't show. It direktly starts to boot Windows.
I'm following the Beginners Installation Guide step by step (except the GRUB part). What am I doing wrong?
Are the Mountpoints wrong?
I don't know which config files you need to help.
Last edited by Peikko (2013-08-13 11:08:55)

It did change but only for this session. After a reboot, the order was reset again.
But this is not the problem anymore.
I have found the solution for this problem here: http://www.jsravn.com/2013/06/26/thinkp … -arch.html
The only problem that still exists is that os-prober is not able to detect the existing Windows 7 partition and add it to the GRUB menu.

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