I have started creating a new instance (SVRMGRL> startup nomount pfile=...../initORCL.ora)
on a machine (RedHat Linux/Oracle 8.1.6). It was taking long time to create the instance due to memorary problem. Hence, I killed the process and lowered the values in the PFILE (init.ora). Then when I say,
svrmgrl, it says:

ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel

At this point, when I re-start the machine, then svrmgrl works fine.

Can someone tell me what's happenning when I kill the process??? What do I have to do
to avoid re-booting and continue working ???

Thanks in advace !!!