disabling graphical boot and shutdown in Fedora 17

[lee]

Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> writes:

> Am 05.11.2012 10:40, schrieb lee:
>> 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.
>
> change the "default.target" symlink
>
> [root at arrakis:/etc/systemd/system]$ ls | grep default
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   36 2011-05-28 20:13 default.target -> /lib/systemd/system/runlevel3.target
>
>> 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?
>
> remove "quiet" and "rhgb" from the grub-config

Thank you, changing the target and removing these boot parameters solved
the problem! :)