I am using Oracle 10g on Windows 2000.

My requirement is to add one parameter to pfile, but there is a strange error which i never come across on 9i.

SQL> shutdown immediate

SQL>startup pfile=<>
ORA-24324: Service handle not initialized
ORA-01041: Internal error: hostdef extension doesn't exist

And there is one more strange behaviour while i shutdown the database , the status of database is showing as started in windows services.

thanks in advance