Comment 6 for bug 504224

I also have this issue on a test box upgraded from 8.04 LTS to 10.04 LTS alpha. Boot hangs completely, no X (not installed on our servers) and no login shell. VT1 shows the following:

mount.nfs: rpc.statd is not running but is required for remote locking.
mount.nfs: Either use '-o nolock' to keep locks local, or start statd.

Repeated several times followed by the following for each NFS entry (we have many) in our fstab:

mountall: mount /usr/systems [849] terminated with status 32
mountall: Filesystem could not be mounted: /usr/systems

Booting with the rescue option from the boot menu makes no difference. If I boot from a live CD and disable the NFS mounts in /etc/fstab then the server boots successfully.