startup failure with ini file

[jestrada101]

I get the following when attempting to start ORacle via "dbstart". I need to get this working to bring up ORacle on reboots... It's 9i...

Is an init*.ora required to use dbstart?

Can't find init file for Database

Thanks
JE

 

[jestrada101]

Note: My enviornment is using SPfile...

 

[jestrada101]

Okay.. I found my fix... it has to do with using teh spfile.

In 9i, dbstart still expects to see an initSID.ora file. All that is need is to create an iniSID.ora file with the SPFILE variable pointing to your spfileSID.ora on the system.

SPFILE=/xxxx/aaaaaa/yyyyy/spfileSID.ora