Barry, mountall shouldn't be mounting your nfs filesystem until after mountall-net comes up. Can you try adding the option 'nobootwait' ?
If it does still fail to mount, it is most likely bug #525154 , which causes mountall to race statd. Marking Incomplete pending response from Barry. ** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/586022 Title: nfs mounts happen before network is up -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs