I have discovered a bug in the script "/etc/init.d/netmount" which is part of baselayout (at least 1.8.3). It fails to report that it depends on portmap, which means NFS filesystems are not automatically mounted at boot time. I discovered that the problem is a typo in a single variable reference. The patch is attached.
Created attachment 4070 [details, diff] patch to fix netmount script
already taken care of ... rsync and upgrade/re-install baselayout *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 7803 ***