Hello,

My NFS mounts are not mounting at boot time. I get
"Mounting NFS filesystems: [FAILED] at boot.
If I do a mount -a after boot they mount without problem.

I am running RHES 5. The line in fstab looks like
beanbag:/home /home nfs bg,retry=20,soft 0 0

I read earlier posts and tried moving netfs to later in the boot cycle, it is normally S25netfs in /etc/rc3.d/S25netfs I moved it to S61netfs and its still failing.

I notice that when I issue the mount -a command it prints out the following:
FS-Cache: Loaded
FS-Cache: 'netfs' registered for caching

I've never noticed this before. If I umount /home and reissue the command I don't see the FS-Cache messages again.

I am confused I have about 30 systems running NFS to each other and this is the only system I have had problems with. It hates me

I found a solution, though I am still looking into why I need it. I found the following

The 30 sec. sleep works but none of my other systems had to do this. I'm guessing the switch its plugged into has a problem.

I have seen a similar problem and if you watch the startup scripts execute you will see "no route to host" error messages. This indicates that the routing tables have not be fully initialized before the nfs entries in the fstab file are attempted. On one system we have about 7-8 nfs entries and only the bottom half were getting mounted. A sleep command in the network startup script worked as well.