Note that mountall 2.52 has now been uploaded to saucy (in order to fix other issues identified in 2.51... also related to network mounts). I'm pretty sure this will fix the remaining problems for you (it did for me in testing locally).
** Changed in: mountall (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/1233610 Title: boot process hangs very often when NFS shares are used To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mountall/+bug/1233610/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs