Oracle Grid Infrastructure is not running.

Hi All,
I installed and configured oracle Linux 6.0,Oracle Database 11gR2 and Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11gR2. And then I went to create ASM with asmca it given me an error, saying Oracle Grid Infrastructure is not running. ASMCA needs Oracle Grid Infrastructure to configure ASM.+ I cannot create ASM and I do not know how to start ASM Instance.
Please anyone knows this help me.
Thanks,
Tharaka
Edited by: tharakaya on Jul 21, 2011 1:28 PM
Edited by: tharakaya on Jul 21, 2011 1:29 PM

tharakaya wrote:
Hi All,
I installed and configured oracle Linux 6.0,Oracle Database 11gR2 and Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11gR2. And then I went to create ASM with asmca it given me an error, saying Oracle Grid Infrastructure is not running. ASMCA needs Oracle Grid Infrastructure to configure ASM.+ I cannot create ASM and I do not know how to start ASM Instance.
Please anyone knows this help me.
Thanks,
Tharaka
HI,
Before you proceed any further you need to know that Linux 6.0 is not certified yet against 11gR2
Cheers

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