Mounting all local hard drives before auto mounts

I have autofs configured to mount network drives at a location which is a couple of levels down inside a local, but secondary internal drive. This works fine if the local drive is already mounted, but upon rebooting the autofs locations appear to mount first then force the internal drive to be mounted at '/Volumes/Shares 1' instead of /Volumes/Shares.
How to fix?
Thanks.

AFAIK, you can't. However, you'll get more help at the Unix forum under OS X Technologies. For Mac OS X startup sequence, see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2674 and http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPSystemS tartup/Articles/BootProcess.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20002130-BAJJBJEG for starters.

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