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GRUB and booting from LVM volumes?

I'm setting-up my new computer, and would like to try out and switch between several OS (mostly different Linux distros). As I prefer to use separate partition for various dirs (/, home, usr, var, opt and perhaps local), I've come to the conclution that I'll run-out of partitions too soon, so I've decided to LVM and use one volume for each OS.

However, reading the LVM Linux HOWTO, suggested that GRUB may not be able to boot a root-partition (/) on LVM... Is that still a problem?

Should I regardless put GRUB (alone) on a normal partition of it's own (/boot) ?

Would putting GRUB and the various kernel-images -- and perhaps various initrd's -- on a normal partition (/boot) help?

How is LVM support for OpenSolaris, FreeBSD, Hurd and Haiku... can they be booted from a LVM (by GRUB)?

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Should I regardless put GRUB (alone) on a normal partition of it's own (/boot) ?

Yes, put GRUB etc. on the /boot partition (/dev/sda1 or whatever)

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