Problem or recover database

I am using Oracel 8i Version: 8.1.7.0.0. it was crash so
I use following command to recvover database but error occurs
alter database recover
Sun May 28 13:10:54 2006
Media Recovery Start
Media Recovery Log
Recovery of Online Redo Log: Thread 1 Group 3 Seq 471 Reading mem 0
Mem# 0 errs 0: D:\ORACLE\ORADATA\HCS\REDO01.LOG
Media Recovery Complete
please suggest me what to do
Regards
Rajendra

ya i Have got following error when "alter database open;"
ERROR at line 2:
ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel
following log found on logfile
Beginning crash recovery of 1 threads
Sun May 28 15:16:11 2006
Thread recovery: start rolling forward thread 1
Recovery of Online Redo Log: Thread 1 Group 2 Seq 472 Reading mem 0
Mem# 0 errs 0: D:\ORACLE\ORADATA\HCS\REDO02.LOG
Sun May 28 15:16:11 2006
Thread recovery: finish rolling forward thread 1
Thread recovery: 0 data blocks read, 0 data blocks written, 35 redo blocks read
Crash recovery completed successfully
Sun May 28 15:16:11 2006
Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 473
Thread 1 opened at log sequence 473
Current log# 3 seq# 473 mem# 0: D:\ORACLE\ORADATA\HCS\REDO01.LOG
Successful open of redo thread 1.
Sun May 28 15:16:11 2006
SMON: enabling cache recovery
SMON: enabling tx recovery
Sun May 28 15:16:12 2006
Errors in file D:\oracle\admin\hcs\bdump\hcsSMON.TRC:
ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [4097], [], [], [], [], [], [], []
SMON: terminating instance due to error 600
Instance terminated by SMON, pid = 1500
Rajendra

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