Startup disk does not see windows

using bootcamp i have created a partition in which i have installed windows. my problem is this: if i go in "startup disk" i cannot chose to restart in windows because startup disk does not show the disk of windows, but only:
- mac osx
-network startup.
to start with windows i have to shut down my imac and restart pressing "alt".
please, somebody can tell what i have to do to see the disk "BOOTCAMP-WINDOWS" in startup disk?
thanks

Yeah me too and one of the problems using it with bootcamp is that macosx will not see the startup disc and will say that it's corrupted, etc since unlike Vista which is supported it creates 2 partitions during setup which I'm guessing is confusing macosx.
So even though it seems to work okay enough I have to hit the alt key each time to boot into it and wait for next version of bootcamp which is supposed to support Win7.

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