NFS mounts not being mounted at boot time.

[Tom H]

On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 3:09 AM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
>
> I am having trouble with a Ubuntu 14.04 system that is not mounting NFS files
> systems at boot time. I have installed nfs-common and have entries in
> /etc/fstab for the mounts. I noticed that Ubuntu does not have a startup
> script to mount NFS disks (the way the RedHat machines I am used to do), since
> it is not possible to mount NFS filesystems when one mounts local system
> filesystems, since the network is not up yet. On all of the RedHat systems
> there is an init script that runs later that mounts NFS file systems (and also
> fires up nfslock if needed). This seems to be missing on Ubuntu (unless I am
> missing something). What am I missing?

fstab nfs mounts are mounted by mountall, triggered by
"/etc/init/mountall-net.conf".

Adding _netdev to your nfs fstab mounts might help but it shouldn't.

Can you mount your nfs fstab mounts manually?