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Since Yosemite no longer supports StartupItems, here's a link to a shell script installer that will create a launchd for you to start MySQL automagically at system startup:

https://github.com/MacMiniVault/Mac-Scripts/blob/master/mmvMySQL/YosemiteLaunchd.sh

We got ours from here...

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=59855


Updated installers including 5.6 and later, all now use launchd.

https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=59855