Oracle Cluster error/question

I’m not a DBA. This is a legal copy of Oracle. I did an install taking all the defaults, and the database started fine (I could use sqlplus to log in and do queries and stuff). Then I rebooted.

Now, when attempting to start my Oracle database (srvctl start database -d [dbname]), I get:

Failure in getting Cluster Database Configuration

Except that there is no cluster. How do I turn this off? Am I using the wrong command to start the darned thing?

Oracle 10.2.0
Red Hat Linux 2.6.9-11
Running on a vmware machine, hosted on Windows XP

So I guess it’s NOT true that one can get an answer to anything on the Dope? :slight_smile: