Came here to post my Monday morning install woes. I have never installed MySQL for Windows before, though it was pretty straight forward. After the install though, I was unable to use the shortcut in the start menu. This was due to it looking for:
"C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\bin\mysql.exe" "--defaults-file=C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\my.ini" "-uroot" "-p"
If you go to the file path location, the my.ini file does not exist. I chose the "Medium" option during the install. I had to change to
"C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\bin\mysql.exe" "--defaults-file=C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\my-medium.ini" "-uroot" "-p"
in order to get the shortcut working. Hope this helps someone!
"C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\bin\mysql.exe" "--defaults-file=C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\my.ini" "-uroot" "-p"
If you go to the file path location, the my.ini file does not exist. I chose the "Medium" option during the install. I had to change to
"C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\bin\mysql.exe" "--defaults-file=C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\my-medium.ini" "-uroot" "-p"
in order to get the shortcut working. Hope this helps someone!