Hello Everybody,

(* I am new to oracle *) I have installed oracle 9.0.1 on RedHat 7.3. And now if i do now "dbstart" gives me following error

"error in identifying controlfile, check alert log for more info"

i checked lof and got the following lines there

PMON started with pid=2 DBW0 started with pid=3 LGWR started with pid=4 CKPT started with pid=5 SMON started with pid=6 RECO started with pid=7 Mon Apr 5 14:56:40 2004 ALTER DATABASE MOUNT Mon Apr 5 14:56:40 2004 ORA-00202: controlfile: 'ora_control1' ORA-27037: unable to obtain file status Linux Error: 2: No such file or directory Additional information: 3 Mon Apr 5 14:56:43 2004 ORA-205 signalled during: ALTER DATABASE MOUNT...

Please suggest me something.

Thanks in advance rajeev

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