To disable graphical boot in Fedora, you need to modify system configuration.

Open the file “/etc/sysconfig/init” and change the line “GRAPHICAL=yes” to “GRAPHICAL=no“. This only disables Fedora from using graphics mode during start up. So Fedora shows the text bar during start up.

However if you want to disable graphical login screen and move to text mode completely, you need to edit the following line in “/etc/inittab” file.

Change

id:5:initdefault:

to

id:3:initdefault:

In the above line, “5″ means graphical mode login and “3″ means text mode login.