diff --git a/conf.d/localmount b/conf.d/localmount
index 397e8cd8..e7277194 100644
--- a/conf.d/localmount
+++ b/conf.d/localmount
@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@
 # This could be useful for some NFS related work.
 #no_umounts="/dir1:/var/dir2"
 #
-# Ignore errors when mounting local file systems.
-# This should be left alone unless you know what you are doing. If it is
-# set to yes, not only will we allow mount failures, but we will ignore
-# syntax errors in fstab.
-#ignore_mount_errors="NO"
+# Mark certain mount points as critical.
+# This contains aspace separated list of mount points which should be
+# considered critical. If one of these mount points cannot be mounted,
+# localmount will fail.
+# By default, this is empty.
+#critical_mounts="/home /var"
diff --git a/conf.d/netmount b/conf.d/netmount
index 53717fcd..e759adf1 100644
--- a/conf.d/netmount
+++ b/conf.d/netmount
@@ -38,3 +38,10 @@
 # other words, please change it to be more suited to your system.
 #
 rc_need="net"
+#
+# Mark certain mount points as critical.
+# This contains aspace separated list of mount points which should be
+# considered critical. If one of these mount points cannot be mounted,
+# netmount will fail.
+# By default, this is empty.
+#critical_mounts="/home /var"
diff --git a/init.d/localmount.in b/init.d/localmount.in
index cfc841a7..96ccc44b 100644
--- a/init.d/localmount.in
+++ b/init.d/localmount.in
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ depend()
 start()
 {
 	# Mount local filesystems in /etc/fstab.
-	local types="noproc" x= no_netdev= rc=
+	local critical= types="noproc" x= no_netdev= rc=
 	for x in $net_fs_list $extra_net_fs_list; do
 		types="${types},no${x}"
 	done
@@ -37,13 +37,13 @@ start()
 	mount -at "$types" $no_netdev
 	eend $? "Some local filesystem failed to mount"
 	rc=$?
-	if [ "$RC_UNAME" != Linux ]; then
-		rc=0
-	elif yesno "${ignore_mount_errors:-NO}"; then
-		if [ $rc -ne 0 ]; then
-			ewarn "localmount: errors detected, but ignored"
-		fi
+	if [ -z "$critical_mounts" ]; then
 		rc=0
+	else
+		for x in ${critical_mounts}; do
+		mountinfo -q $x || critical=x
+		done
+		[-z "$critical" ] && rc=0
 	fi
 	return $rc
 }
diff --git a/init.d/netmount.in b/init.d/netmount.in
index f7237f13..0febde2a 100644
--- a/init.d/netmount.in
+++ b/init.d/netmount.in
@@ -42,8 +42,13 @@ start()
 		rc=$?
 	fi
 	ewend $rc "Could not mount all network filesystems"
-	if [ "$RC_UNAME" != Linux ]; then
+	if [ -z "$critical_mounts" ]; then
 		rc=0
+	else
+		for x in ${critical_mounts}; do
+		mountinfo -q $x || critical=x
+		done
+		[-z "$critical" ] && rc=0
 	fi
 	return $rc
 }