Beginer: OSS sees XP, Grub and Grub (same)

[Poltiser]

I have 3 HDs:
1 SATA (XP Home - 32, Debian - amd64, Ubuntu - amd64, swap)
2 IDE,
- NTFS, ext3, ext3
- NTFS
everything works well, but I use Grub 1 and Grub 2 (identical) to choose from debian and ubuntu, as Grub is recognised as an os in both cases.

In properties of XP there are descriptions of folders and files, in Linux each time only Grub is recognised.

I don't think I understand how I can use OSS to see the Debian or Ubuntu directly. How can I do that?

[MudCrab]

Making OSS boot directly into Linux without going through GRUB is something I've never tried. I don't even know if it's possible. If it were, it would require manual entry into the bootwiz.oss file and setting it to boot directly to the Linux kernel (like GRUB does).

In my setup, I have GRUB installed for each Linux installation and have just set the timeout to a short period (like 2 seconds) so it boots fast, but I still have time to "break in" and stop GRUB if Linux breaks and I need to edit the boot parameters or start in recovery mode.

File folders and files for Windows that OSS keeps track of have nothing to do with Linux. These are just so OSS knows what folders to "copy" if you use the Copy OS function. The files are the booting related files that OSS keeps a copy of so it can use them when booting into that particular Windows.

When booting Linux, OSS just chainloads to GRUB and GRUB does the actual booting into Linux.

[Poltiser]

Thank you for your reply.
I read somebody's post describing use of Acronis OSS to boot directly into Linux without Grub, but I lost it and description was rather not simple.
I tried to install Linux without Grub and OSS did not detect it. I was hoping there is a simple way of teaching OSS how to boot Linux without Grub, using OSS instead.
What I have works well, I'll use it as it is. ;)
Thank you for your answer...