first nfs mount in fstab fails

[Ron Peterson <rpeterso@mtholyoke.edu>]

I have an fstab, which after the usual local disk entries has nfs
entries that look like:

aservername:/s     /s     nfs rw,bg,intr,proto=tcp 0 0
aservername:/alum  /alum  nfs rw,bg,intr,proto=tcp 0 0
aservername:/users /users nfs rw,bg,intr,proto=tcp 0 0
aservername:/u2    /u2    nfs rw,bg,intr,proto=tcp 0 0
etc.

On boot, the first mount consistently fails to mount.  It manually
mounts fine.  If I switch entries around, the same thing happens - the
first entry fails to mount.

Any ideas?

-- 
Ron Peterson
Network & Systems Manager
Mount Holyoke College
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso