The netmount script (/etc/init.d/netmount) that comes with Gentoo 1.4rc1 contains a small bug which results in nfs mounts not being mounted at boot time. The problem is easily fixed In /etc/init.d/netmoun at line 24 change : need ${mysdeps} to need ${myneed}
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 7803 ***