I am sorry if is a silly question but do you have several SIDs in your sever? in that case, is your environment (ORACLE_SID, ORACLE_HOME, ...) right? In case the environment is ok have you created DB with DBCA? Is using DBCA right environment (libs, .....) HTH Enrique On 9/16/05, DBA Deepak <oracle.tutorials@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am encountering some errors in starting up the 10g DB. It is giving teh > following error. > > ORA-00704: bootstrap process failure > ORA-39700: database must be opened with UPGRADE option > > The DB mounts successfully, but while opening it is giving the error. I am > not doing any upgrade though. Simply trying to create a DB. > Please help. > > -- > Regards, > > Deepak > Oracle DBA -- ------------------------------------------------ Enrique -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l