XP/Vista drives don't appear in "System Preferences"

[mkrad]

I would like to select Windows drive(s) using "system preferences" for reboot from OSX but only the HFS+ drives and "network startup" show under "Startup Disk".

Holding 'option' key on reboot for some reason only shows the selection screen intermittently, maybe once in 5-6 reboots; the rest of the time it goes straight to Leopard. This happens with both wireless and wired keyboards.

Or is there a way to boot directly to the boot camp selection screen every time?

 

[Capt Crunch]

I would like to select Windows drive(s) using "system preferences" for reboot from OSX but only the HFS+ drives and "network startup" show under "Startup Disk".

Holding 'option' key on reboot for some reason only shows the selection screen intermittently, maybe once in 5-6 reboots; the rest of the time it goes straight to Leopard. This happens with both wireless and wired keyboards.

Or is there a way to boot directly to the boot camp selection screen every time?

I have this exact problem... any advice anyone?

 

[Infrared]

Same problem here, except the drive always appears
when holding down the option key.

I'm pretty sure it's a bug of some sort because:

(a) I've been able to select the windows drive as the
default boot drive in the past.

(b) When I was messing around with partitions on the
OS X drive, the Windows drive magically appeared as a
startup disk option.