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I've written a brief article explaining how to boot FreeBSD from a LVM2
volume.  Extensive search of the web suggested it could not be done, but
it can, and easily.  I thought this might be of interest to the
community, and perhaps even suitable for inclusion on the FreeBSD web or
handbook.  See http://davidnewall.com/papers/Boot-FreeBSD-on-LVM2.html.