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I have a CentOS 6.2 OS which boots into GUI. How, upon startup, can I not boot into the GUI and instead, boot into the CLI? I want to do this at computer startup time.
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I have a CentOS 6.2 OS which boots into GUI. How, upon startup, can I not boot into the GUI and instead, boot into the CLI? I want to do this at computer startup time.
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When you are at the GRUB menu where you select which OS to boot (if this menu don’t appear, press ESC while you get the “Booting CentOS in X seconds”), press e to edit your boot commands. You should see a screen like this: (parameters may vary)
Look for the line that begins with kernel
. Choose it and then press e again. You will be at a simple editor, add 3
to the end of this line. This means booting in runlevel 3, which is text-mode only.
To make this stick: edit /etc/inittab
and look for a line that begin with id:5
. Replace the 5
in that line by 3
. You can find a brief description of runlevels here, but shortly:
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sudo init [level-number]
-- this is temporary, when you reboot, you get to your default, configured in /etc/inittab
.rhgb
with text
in boot menu. To make it permanent, edit /boot/grub/grub.conf
.
Thanks it's fine for 6.4. I don't think this works for CentOS 7 though... – lppier – 2015-05-11T07:35:19.433
@lppier I haven't used CentOS 7 much, but likely it doesn't work since CentOS now uses systemd. – Renan – 2015-05-11T12:34:22.397
3For CentOS 7, type this into the Terminal: 'systemctl set-default multi-user.target' and to change it back, 'systemctl set-default graphical.target' – turiyag – 2015-08-24T18:43:16.083
@Renan In statement "add 3 to the end of this line" What "this line" refers too? – brainLoop – 2019-03-07T12:46:59.003
3After making the kernel edit for the runlevel boot mode, (and pushing
b
for "boot"), is it still supposed to load the splash screen? – bgmCoder – 2012-05-19T21:10:14.5571@BGM I think so, but it should drop you to the login prompt after it finishes. – Renan – 2012-05-19T21:11:15.270
It works for level 1, but not for level 3. Is that strange? – bgmCoder – 2012-05-19T21:12:33.337
Anyway, Renan has the answer. I also found it here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/auditd-fails-to-start-on-boot-846100/
– bgmCoder – 2012-05-19T21:25:37.330