Next I moved /var/log to /log and replaced /var/log with a symlink pointing to /log. Then I attached 2 disks to it, initialized thier file systems, and mounted them to /mysql and /log respectively. I booted a fresh Ubuntu 16.04 LTM virtual machine on Microsoft Azure. I'm at my wits' end trying to solve this.Įarlier today I was booting a fresh DB instance on an Ubuntu VM with the intention to run keep the MYSQL db files on a separate drive and log files on a 3rd drive. Question 1: How do I fix the issue described below? Question 2: Why does it occur? Background Installing mysql-server-5.7 fails at Renaming removed key_buffer and myisam-recover options (if present)