[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#388761: initscripts: Moving NFS mounts to /etc/network/if-up.d/mountnfs breaks my diskless system

[Brian Cluff]

I just ran into this same problem my self.  The problem seem to be 
caused by having an older diskless system where the old way of doing 
things was to compile a big fat kernel with all the modules you needed 
to boot and to run the system compiled in and running without an 
initrd.img.  If you do that, when the interface goes to try and get an 
IP (for the second time) it looses any access it had to it's network 
mounted root directory and therefore can't mount anything and freezes.

The fix would seem to be to change your kernel to a stock one along with 
loading its initrd.img so that you still have access to a mount command 
if you loose your IP.  (I makes kernel upgrades easier too)

Brian