This issue should be fixed, closing the bugreport therefore. If you explore the 
same bug again please feel free to reopen it.

Thanks!

regards,
-mika-

JFTR: The upload of grml-etc version 1.1.4 is supposed to really fix the issue. 
Explanation: it failed due to a stupid mistake - being a check for nfsdir 
instead of the currently being used nfsroot option. Thanks for all the testing, 
Wolfgang! Hopefully this package really fixes the issue now. :)

Jimmy, any chance that you can test a fresh ISO from daily.grml.org in the next 
few days?

thx && regards,
-mika-

FYI: I just did an upgrade to 1.1.3 of grml-etc after booting plain grml 1.1,
but it hangs when trying to reboot/halt, see the attached screenshot.

Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> has uploaded a package that may fix your bug.
Please test the package and inform the maintainer whether
version 1.1.3 of grml-etc works as intended or not.

Thank you

The changelog is attached below

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Format: 1.7
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:46:23 +0100
Source: grml-etc
Binary: grml-etc
Architecture: source all
Version: 1.1.3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
Changed-By: Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
Description: 
 grml-etc   - ecetera files for the grml system
Changes: 
 grml-etc (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * /etc/init.d/grml-reboot: put reboot + halt binaries to
     the filesystem cache [Testing: issue384]
   * /etc/init.d/grml-reboot: rework umounting and network
     shutdown sequences so filesystems are unmounted also
     when booting via NFS [Testing: issue434]
Files: 
 8e5d770fa5c5ad6cbb64896d882b9085 570 grml optional grml-etc_1.1.3.dsc
 8339417378205b4ed752533c4ccc7c55 145111 grml optional grml-etc_1.1.3.tar.gz
 4ab025af3fa85a68350c9a75bd8d710e 145322 grml optional grml-etc_1.1.3_all.deb

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http://hg.grml.org/grml-etc/rev/ebd8ba7f3743 - /etc/init.d/grml-reboot: rework 
umounting and network shutdown

Credits to Walter Haidinger:

Small, but annoying bug in grml-1.1:
The network is shut down _before_ the filesystems are unmounted.

Perhaps no problem when running from CD but I boot grml over PXE
from NFS (from http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=terminalserver).

Obviously shutdown hangs when grml tries to unmount the NFS root
filesystem without a network...