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diff --git a/sql/ha_innobase.cc b/sql/ha_innobase.cc
index 5f76ec39ce3..2eed5ada680 100644
--- a/sql/ha_innobase.cc
+++ b/sql/ha_innobase.cc
@@ -542,7 +542,15 @@ innobase_init(void)
if (!innobase_data_file_path)
{
fprintf(stderr,
- "Can't initialize InnoDB as 'innodb_data_file_path' is not set\n");
+ "Cannot initialize InnoDB as 'innodb_data_file_path' is not set.\n"
+ "If you do not want to use transactional InnoDB tables, add a line\n"
+ "skip-innodb\n"
+ "to the [mysqld] section of init parameters in your my.cnf\n"
+ "or my.ini. If you want to use InnoDB tables, add for example,\n"
+ "innodb_data_file_path = /mysql/data/ibdata1:20M\n"
+ "More information on setting the parameters you find in the\n"
+ "manual.\n");
+
innodb_skip=1;
DBUG_RETURN(FALSE); // Continue without innobase
}