Updated boot loader (GRUB)

I regard "/boot" partitions as an abomination(*), and wish to avoid using them (and have done so very successfully for many years now).  But I also want to make / an LVM2 volume in the future...and the archaic version of GRUB in RHEL 6.1 can't handle that.  I saw GRUB 2.0 as a desired feature for Fedora-mumble (whatever is being developed right now), but it hasn't been commited yet.  This needs to be a priority.

*my mantra for several years has been to simplify, simplify, simplify...and that's hard to do when you have extra partitions rattling around, with different volume types (LVM vs. non-LVM) and sometimes different file system types. The OS should be installable on a single file system (/), with the full features of the kernel supported (e.g. LVM, software RAID-1 if needed--though we always use hardware for RAID).  Especially now in the days of virtualization when adding new PVs is trivial.