[newbie] Portmapper failure

[Barry Winch]

Hi,
Up until this morning everything was running fine Mandrake 7.0 kernel
2.2.14-15mdk on a i586. When I rebooted everything went fine until the line
after "starting linuxconf". The system appeared to freeze, but some minutes
later the following message appeared: mount: RPC: Portmapper failure - RPC:
Timed out.

After a couple more minutes, the start continues as normal. Everthing
APPEARS to run OK. Any ideas what I need to do to get a clean start up
please

TIA
Barry