NFS mount failing to mount on reboot An issue that was occuring for me was that upon reboot, the NFS mount configured in /etc/fstab would attempt to mount before the network was up. So the NFS mount would fail as neither the network or DNS were working at the point the mount was attempted. I tried various suggestions to get it working such as using _netdev in the “mount options” field in /etc/fstab but those did not work.