Post your fstab.  You should be able to set the "auto" mount option to
force automatic mounting at startup (when the system runs "mount -a" to
start filesystems from fstab) 

Be aware that if the nfs mount is unavailable, the system won't boot.

On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:20:30PM -0500, Dustin Puryear wrote:
> I have an application that starts at system start that runs off an NFS
> mount. Now, I've found that NFS filesystems are not mounted at system start,
> even if they are in /etc/fstab. I read somewhere that this is because of the
> order in which network services are generally started.
> 
> Obviously, if the NFS filesystem is not mounted the application will not
> start.
> 
> What is the fix for this? Putting:
> 
> /bin/mount -a -t nfs
> 
> Or even:
> 
> /bin/mount /mnt/nfs-fs
> 
> In /etc/rc.d/rc.local won't help because rc.local runs after most other
> start-up scripts. But perhaps I'm wrong about rc.local not being helpful.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Regards, Dustin
> 
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