Make sure you set the ora_<sid>_autostart parameter to TRUE in the registry
"MT" <mtechera_at_wpmc.com> wrote in message
news:a3b4c5$nov$1_at_news.online.de...
> Hello:
>
> Yesterday I asked how to set up Oracle 8.1.7
> on a Win2K machine so that the RDBMS automatically
> starts up.
>
> I was told that by simpoly having the corresponding
> services set to "Automatic" that would suffice.
>
> Well it turns out that, although the services are
> set to automatic, and after a reboot the services
> are labeled Started, the database is not mounted and
> opened: "Shared Memory Area Not Available".
>
> I then go to the Instance Manager and start it up and
> everything then works fine.
>
> Could it be that it is not using the correct
> init.ora file on start-up? If so, in which path does it look for
> the file for when it starts up the service? Can this
> be seen in the entry or anywhere else?
>
> Thanks,
> MT
>
>
>
>
Received on Thu Jan 31 2002 - 07:23:13 CST
