Running bootstrap Executing ""C:\Program Files\MariaDB 10.3\bin\mysqld.exe" --no-defaults --console --innodb-page-size=16384 --bootstrap "--lc-messages-dir=C:/Program Files/MariaDB 10.3/share" --basedir=. --datadir=. --default-storage-engine=myisam --max_allowed_packet=9M --net-buffer-length=16k" 2018-10-19 15:33:40 0 [Note] C:\Program Files\MariaDB 10.3\bin\mysqld.exe (mysqld 10.3.9-MariaDB) starting as process 12812 ... 2018-10-19 15:33:40 0 [Note] InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use Windows interlocked functions 2018-10-19 15:33:40 0 [Note] InnoDB: Uses event mutexes 2018-10-19 15:33:40 0 [Note] InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3 2018-10-19 15:33:40 0 [Note] InnoDB: Number of pools: 1 2018-10-19 15:33:40 0 [Note] InnoDB: Using SSE2 crc32 instructions 2018-10-19 15:33:40 0 [Note] InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, total size = 128M, instances = 1, chunk size = 128M 2018-10-19 15:33:40 0 [Note] InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool 2018-10-19 15:33:40 0 [Note] InnoDB: 128 out of 128 rollback segments are active. 2018-10-19 15:33:40 0 [Note] InnoDB: Creating shared tablespace for temporary tables 2018-10-19 15:33:40 0 [Note] InnoDB: Setting file '.\ibtmp1' size to 12 MB. Physically writing the file full; Please wait ... 2018-10-19 15:33:40 0 [Note] InnoDB: File '.\ibtmp1' size is now 12 MB. 2018-10-19 15:33:40 0 [Note] InnoDB: Waiting for purge to start 2018-10-19 15:33:40 0 [Note] InnoDB: 10.3.9 started; log sequence number 1603959; transaction id 9 2018-10-19 15:33:40 0 [Note] InnoDB: Loading buffer pool(s) from C:\Users\mbe\ib_buffer_pool 2018-10-19 15:33:40 0 [Note] Plugin 'FEEDBACK' is disabled. 2018-10-19 15:33:40 0 [Note] InnoDB: Buffer pool(s) load completed at 181019 15:33:40 ERROR: 1049 Unknown database 'mysql' 2018-10-19 15:33:40 0 [ERROR] Aborting ERROR: Cannot write to mysqld's stdin FATAL ERROR: database creation failed https://mariadb.com/kb/en/installation-issues-on-windows contains some help for solving the most common problems. If this doesn't help you, please leave a comment in the Knowledge Base or file a bug report at https://jira.mariadb.org