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I’m building a new storage server. I was unable to use the CentOS-8-
x86_64-1905-dvd1.iso image written to a 256GB thumb drive. It kept failing the integrity check. I had to use the much smaller CentOS-8-
x86_64-1905-boot.iso image and do a network install from a mirror site. That’s a first for me.

Even though I selected “Server with GUI”, the resulting installation boots to a text prompt. I’ve installed the GNOME and GNOME Applications groups, and I can get to them by typing ‘startx’.

How do I change this behavior and make it boot directly to a graphical desktop?

–Doc Savage
Fairview Heights, IL

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  • What you are asking is to change the systemd default target. You want

    systemctl set-default graphical.target

    Just Google for something like “CentOS 8 graphical login” or “CentOS 8
    gui login” and you get vast numbers of hits.

    P.