Comment 22 for bug 430348

I'm still seeing this issue with mountall 1.0 in Karmic on an nfsroot, just as Dolganov.
mountall freezes trying to remount root and the other nfs shares listed in fstab, it won't work
as the neither portmap nor statd has started yet.

I haven't looked enough at the mountall sources, but it appears it happens in the progress_timer callback, check when the root device was lasted checked.