title: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.user' doesn't exist
body: <p>I installed MySQL community server 5.7.10 using binary zip. I extracted the zip in <code>c:\mysql</code> and created the data folder in <code>c:\mysql\data</code>. I created the config file as <code>my.ini</code> and placed it in <code>c:\mysql</code> (root folder of extracted zip). Below is the content of the <code>my.ini</code> file</p>
  
  <pre><code># set basedir to your installation path
  basedir=C:\mysql
  # set datadir to the location of your data directory
  datadir=C:\mysql\data
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm trying to start MySQL using <code>mysqld --console</code>, but the process is aborted with the below error.</p>
  
  <pre><code>2015-12-29T18:04:01.141930Z 0 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.user' doesn't exist
  2015-12-29T18:04:01.141930Z 0 [ERROR] Aborting 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any help on this will be appreciated.</p>