disabling graphical boot and shutdown in Fedora 17

[Kevin Martin]

On 11/05/12 07:22, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> 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

Wouldn't "systemctl disable graphical.target" and "systemctl enable multi-user.target" do the same thing?

Kevin