I recently suffered the joy of a server crash (Ubuntu 12.04) and a subsequent failure to reboot.
It appears that the OS attempted to mount the NFS shares in the /etc/fstab file before networking had been loaded by the OS, meaning the OS failed to get past that point in the boot cycle.
My fstab file is correct and this server has been rebooted before, so I can only think this is a race condition?
Is there any way I can mount the directories in the fstab after the OS has booted OR at least do it at the very end of the boot process?