Change default runlevel in CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 | GUI | NON-GUI

Hello All,

As systemd is already implemented in CentOS 7 and RHEL 7, Method has been changed to change runlevel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS 7. So sharing method to change runlevel in CentOS and RHEL 7

CentOS / RHEL 7

Please perform following simple steps to change runlevel from GUI to NON-GUI and NON-GUI to GUI.

1. Execute following command to check current runlevel settings.

[root@vikram ~]# systemctl get-default

1.1 If current setting is graphical.target then Linux will boot in GUI Mode.
1.2 If current setting is multi-user.target then Linux will boot in NON-GUI Mode.

2. Execute following command to Change from GUI to NON-GUI Mode.

[root@vikram ~]# systemctl set-default multi-user.target

[root@vikram ~]# reboot

3. Execute following command to Change from NON-GUI to GUI Mode.

[root@vikram ~]# systemctl set-default graphical.target

[root@vikram ~]# reboot

Hope it will helps you.