WampServer

For the past week I have been trying to get wamp fully running on windows 8 the IPv4/v6 issue I solved no problem (thanks google) but I just can't get the mySQL service to start and so the wamp tray icon remains orange.

I have tried both wamp 2.2 (with multiple install attempts) and the 2.3 beta.

With each install attempt with both versions all the services started initially (on first launch) no prob but then after either "restarting all services" or shutting down wamp and re-launching results in mySQL refusing to start.

Restarting my machine was also of no help.



Any assistance would be fantastic.

Problem solved.

It seems the issue was between mySQL and my GPT partition.

As of windows 8 it would seem that 32bit OS's can boot from GPT partitions so it is no longer limited to large secondary disks (2TB+) and 64bit OS's so smaller disked 32bit pre setup devices may come with a GPT boot partition

I got this reply on geekzone.co.nz which fixed things:


Is this a large disk using GPT?

If so maybe check out this bug:

[bugs.mysql.com]

Seems that setting

innodb_flush_method=normal

in the mysql config might be helpful.