I installed a MySQL Server 5.1 on my machine (Windows Server 2008) and I chose MyISAM as the default DB storage engine. I created one empty DB on it just for testing. Later I reconfigured it using the MySQL Server Instance Config Wizard to use InnoDB as default storage engine. Now when I made the changes and tried to restart the MySQL service, it keeps crashing. It just doesn't start. How can I access the error log to see whats the problem?
It only starts if I run the Server Config wizard again and choose the MyISAM engine as default. Once it starts and when I do "SHOW ENGINES", it does show me InnoDB in a row but when I do "SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS", it gives me Unknown table engine'innodb' error. Please help. Thanks.
Best Answer
It looks like you have the Innodb disabled. Try this and restart
Shut down MySQL Open my.ini in MySQL program folder. In my.ini replace skip-innodb with: # skip-innodb Save and restart Mysql