NFS mounts not being mounted at boot time.

[Tom H]

On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 08, 2016 at 09:09:15PM -0400, Robert Heller 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?
>
> Isn't there an option specifically for this case in the fstab?  The
> man page for fstab mentions 'nobootwait' which is probably what you
> want.  I think there may be an nfs option that applies too though.

You must mean "bootwait".