No zoneserver available to boot up

[Sylaei]

This will set the password for your database. You should have already done this, but...
if you have to enter a password after the mysql -u root -p statement you have already done this, and doing it again won't help.

mysql -u root -p
\u peq
set password for 'root'@'localhost' = OLD_PASSWORD('newpwd');

Also you are using minilogin this is what my loginserver.ini file looks like.

[LoginServer]
loginserver=192.168.0.104
#loginserver2=
loginport=5999
#loginport2=
#worldname=EqEmuPortable
#worldaddress=168.192.0.104
#locked=false
#account=
#password=

[WorldServer]
Defaultstatus=
Unavailzone=

[ChatChannelServer]
worldshortname=
chataddress=
chatport=

[LoginConfig]
ServerMode=Minilogin
ServerPort=5999

Just something else to look at.

Maybe sleep will help

[Ziaris]

I fixed it. The problem was that I needed to launch 4 windows: world.exe, MiniLogin.exe, eqlaunch.exe and zone.exe. Zone.exe was able to connect to the MySQL database after I rebooted and reinitialized my MySQL from the system tray monitor. After I did that zones can load no problem...apparently zone.exe wasn't a part of my start.bat file; maybe I missed something in the guide?

Thanks for all of your help Sylaei!