disabling graphical boot and shutdown in Fedora 17

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 10:40:33 +0100,
   lee <lee at yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>how do I turn off all the graphical booting and shutting down?
>
>What I want is *not* to start any X session when I boot or shutodwn.
>When booting, I want to end up at the console, and I want to use startx
>to start an X session from there after logging in.
>
>When shutting down from the console, a graphical screen appears showing
>the Fedora logo.  That's really silly and I'd like to turn that off ---
>but how?

As suggested removing rhgb from the kernel parameters in the grub config 
will do some of this. You also need to boot to the multi-user targer instead 
of the graphical target. The command to do this is:
ln -sf /usr/lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target /etc/systemd/system/default.target