New 11gR2 DB Startup Problem In Finding pfile

I created a new 11gR2 database yesterday. First I installed the grid infrastructure and chose the followed the instructions for "Installing and Configuring Grid Infrastructure For a Standalone Server". The ASM DATA disk group was successfully created. Then I successfully used the asmca tool to add a FRA disk group.
Here' s the current crs status, with me logged in as user "grid":
-bash-3.00$ crs_stat -t -v
Name Type R/RA F/FT Target State Host
ora.DATA.dg ora....up.type 0/5 0/ ONLINE ONLINE hostsrv1
ora.FRA.dg ora....up.type 0/5 0/ ONLINE ONLINE hostsrv1
ora....ER.lsnr ora....er.type 0/5 0/ ONLINE ONLINE hostsrv1
ora.asm ora.asm.type 0/5 0/ ONLINE ONLINE hostsrv1
ora.cssd ora.cssd.type 0/5 0/5 ONLINE ONLINE hostsrv1
ora.diskmon ora....on.type 0/10 0/5 ONLINE ONLINE hostsrv1
Looks good.
Then I try to bring up the database that successfully created last night. I log in as user "oracle" and try to bring the DB up:
ORACLE_SID=hostsrv1
ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle
ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db
-bash-3.00$ sqlplus / as sysdba
SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.1.0 Production on Wed May 12 11:06:43 2010
Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to an idle instance.
SQL> startup;
ORA-01078: failure in processing system parameters
LRM-00109: could not open parameter file '/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db/dbs/inithostsrv1.ora'
SQL>
It's true, the pfile is missing from that directory. If I understand correctly (new to R2) it should be there and be pointing to an spfile in the +DATA diskgroup. Does that sound right? I guess I should try to create a pfile that points to the location of the spfile but I need to know how to obtain that information (location of spfile) from the ASM instance.
Thanks for any help :-)

If you are sure you spfile should be in ASM diskgroup, then you can use utility asmcmd for connecting to this ASM instance, and later by browsing ASM catalog structure you can find the location of your spfile.

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