Macbook freezes when choosing efi boot in Mavericks?

Hi. I'm not sure how many have already upgraded to Mavericks, but I'm experiencing the following:
I was trying to install Windows 7 with BootCamp but got errors about "not being able to boot from this disk" even though I did everything the way I should.
I started looking around and found a huge community that was trying to get Windows 7 installed in EFI mode (without bootcamp bios emulation) on older macs (and more succesfully on newer macs).
Now the thing is that all these people say that they can boot fine from normal "windows" installation and boot just fine from "efi boot" installation, but that they got errors during install.
My problem: Is that as soon as I choose EFI boot on my windows 7 DVD or windows 7 USB installer, my macbookpro9,2 will freeze. First the screen will hang a short while (the press-alt-during-boot-screen) then this screen will get grainy, and then the top few centimeters will go black with colored bars in them.
After this happens I can do nothing else than force the macbook to power down.
The windows installer boots fine from the normal "windows" boot mode but then I get these "windows may not be able to boot from this disk" errors.
So I have two questions:
1. Does anyone have experience with the "Windows can't be installed on this disk, Windows may not be able to boot properly from it" errors?
2. Does anyone have experience with installing Windows 7 when choosing EFI boot in the boot manager?
I would appreciate it if some of you that have a window 7 USB or DVD installer, please insert it into your mac, press alt during boot, choose EFI, and check if it freezes, boots windows install, or boots OSX.
Kind regards,
Jasper de Werk

Hello raisdead.
I'm using an iMac (mid 2010, with i3 processor and AMD 4670 graphics).
I also have been trying to get EFISTUB boot to work and I've got it running now. I prefer it to grub.
Your log reports are OK (like mine) until the ERROR comes up.
I think you may not have got the correct UUID for your disk in the refind_linux.conf file.
If you can boot with another linux, maybe a live install disk, and run
sudo blkid /dev/sda7 (or whatever the number is for your arch disk partition)
you will get the UUID to put in your refind_linux.conf file.
In the refind_linux.conf file, the menu line I use to boot with is
"Boot default" "root=UUID=e5ead341-2bea-4933-969c-09ba528e9729 ro nosplash nomodeset init=/bin/systemd"
You might use the same but with your own UUID value, and maybe no init= value, if you are not using systemd yet (despite initial problems I recommend it).
The nomodeset is to avoid a black screen problem with the radeon video module.
My boot files are under EFI/arch353/ on the first partition on my mac. The files there are
refind_linux.conf
vmlinuz-linux
initramfs-linux.img
initramfs-linux-fallback.img
To keep this up to date when the kernel changes I mount the EFI partition (do this before the new kernel is installed, otherwise you might lose the ability to mount)
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/uefi
make a new folder arch354 (say)
and copy over the new vmlinuz, initramfs files, together with a copy of the original refind_linux.conf
When one version isn't needed just delete its folder.
refind seems to find anything that might be bootable.
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