@vordan Sorry to hear this! We have other folks running with MySQL, so I'm not sure what your particular issue is.
Can you echo $CLASSPATH in start.sh to ensure the mysql library is being picked up?
Here's an excerpt of start.sh:
# Start it up echo "Starting fusionauth-app..." echo " --> Logging to ${LOG_DIR}/fusionauth-app.log" cd "${APP_DIR}" CLASSPATH="" for file in lib/*; do CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH}:${file} done CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH:1} if [[ ${1} == "--debug" ]]; thenAdd echo $CLASSPATH on a new line after CLASSPATH=${CLASSPATH:1}. Do you see your mysql lib file?