Problem creating a new spfile on a standby database.

Question

I'm running an oracle 9.2.0.8 physical standby where I've changed some parameters creating a new pfile. The instance is working fine with this pfile, but I want to use an spfile. To do this, I've cancelled recovery, created a new spfile from the current pfile and shutdown the instance. Then the problem appears when I mount the instance. I check the parameters I've changed in the pfile and these changes are not present on my "new" spfile. If I take a look to spfile parameter...., my instance is running with old one! Do you have any suggestion about how to fix this?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

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Did You restarted instance in order to use a new changed pfile?
And only after that created spfile?
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Yes, I've restarted the instance to use the new pfile, and also after create the new spfile.
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What You mean with "take a look to spfile parameter"?
You checked out and saw that database is still using pfile?
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I've executed the following sentence:
"show parameter spfile"
and the output shows me that the file in use was the old one.
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If you don't specify on startup what file to use spfile or pfile then oracle automaticaly looks into $ORACLE_HOME/dbs and search in this order:
* spfileSID.ora
* spfile.ora
* initSID.ora
* init.ora
Do you have under $ORACLE_HOME/dbs spfileSID.ora or spfile.ora?
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I've the following files under $ORACLE_HOME/dbs:
* spfileSID.ora (that's the new spfile)
* initSID.ora (that's the old spfile)
* initxxxxx.ora (that's my custom pfile)
I've created the new spfile with my standby database on mount state, with the following sentence:
"create spfile from pfile"
When I restart the instance and try to mount it (using the new spfile), I get an ORA-00214 error.
So, I'm still running with my custom pfile.