Here is the reply from Amit Singh, MacFUSE developer:
Quote:
People keep asking about the ntfs-3g and Startup Disk prefpane "issue"
with Boot Camp. If you have ntfs-3g active and have a "Boot Camp"
Windows volume, the latter does not show up in the Startup Disk
prefpane.
The Startup Disk prefpane is simply filtering out (i.e. not
displaying) any mounted volumes that it doesn't consider bootable. Its
definition of a Boot Camp volume includes that the mounted volume
either be of type "msdos" or "ntfs"--this is hardcoded into the
prefpane plugin.
$ cd /System/Library/PreferencePanes/StartupDisk.prefPane/Contents/
MacOS
$ cat StartupDisk | strings | egrep -e 'msdos|ntfs'
msdos
ntfs
That's all there is to it. The volume is still bootable--it's just the
prefpane GUI that's refusing to show the volume. You can hold the opt
key during startup and choose the Windows partition to boot from. You
can also remount it (read-only) using the standard OS X ntfs, and it
should start showing up in the prefpane.
If you think this "breakage" is catastrophic, you should ask Apple to
do something about it.
In short, if you want to do something about the problem then please ask Apple to let us support you. Currently they block us to help you.
