I don't use LTSP but I've found two major problems using nfsroots on
Lucid, and probably Karmic as well:

1. By default NFS wants locking, which creates a circular dependency:
rootfs -> statd -> portmap -> local-filesystems event -> rootfs -> statd
-> etc.

2. To work around that problem, you can put "nolock" in /etc/fstab for
the rootfs. However this runs into a bug in mountall where it doesn't
notice the rootfs has been successfully mounted, so it will loop forever
trying to finish mounting the local filesystems.

These two problems are described in more detail in bug #537133 with a
patch that fixes the second issue.

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/etc/init/mountall.conf fails when root is mounted using NFS instead of NBD
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/485709
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