How To Boot CentOS 7 In Text Mode In Default?

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How to boot CentOS 7 in Text mode in default? I install CentOS 7 using vmware, and do not want to use graph mode.

Thanks, Peidong

10 thoughts on - How To Boot CentOS 7 In Text Mode In Default?

  • Try:

    plymouth-set-default-theme –list

    You should see ‘text’ and ‘details’. You probably want details, so try:

    plymouth-set-default-theme details -R

    This will take a little while to run, so be patient.

    digimer

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  • I have done what you said and I restarted CentOS7. It still goes into graph mode automatically. So what is the step I can do to go into text mode automatically?

    2015-03-19 12:03 GMT-07:00 Digimer :

  • Modify the boot lable as below.

    Sudo vim /etc/inittab

    Id:5:initdefault:
    Id:3:initdefault:

    You have to chage the setup 5 > 3

    Good luck!!

    —–Original Message—

  • In case of C7

    $ Sudo systemctl disable gdm.service

    then reboot your server.

    Sean

    —–Original Message—

  • Um no?

    systemctl set-default multi-user.target

    All you have to do is set the target to reach… what the above command does is symlink default.target to the chosen target.

  • He included the command in his message. Also as I indicated in an early message in this thread, if you look at /etc/inittab, where one used to set the runlevel, you will see the details of how to do this on a C7 machine. Mark’s wiki reference included the correct information too.

    [please don’t top post, especially on a thread where people are
    (appropriately) bottom posting, as your posts are messing up readability.]

    – Richard