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How can I disable x server from starting up on Fedora 17? In older versions the user should edit /etc/inittab but in this version (I don't checked this on previous versions) Fedora uses some other mechanisms to do that.

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From the manual online:

systemd uses symlinks to point to the default runlevel. You have to delete the existing symlink first before creating a new one

So...

rm /etc/systemd/system/default.target
ln -sf /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target /etc/systemd/system/default.target

To switch back:

rm /etc/systemd/system/default.target
ln -sf /lib/systemd/system/graphical.target /etc/systemd/system/default.target

You will still get the graphical boot splash. To remove the boot splash, remove "rhgb" from /etc/default/grub...

#GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0 rd.dm=0 SYSFONT=True  KEYTABLE=us rd.luks=0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rhbg quiet"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0 rd.dm=0 SYSFONT=True  KEYTABLE=us rd.luks=0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 quiet"

and then run grub2-mkconfig...

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

To solve the missing "True" font bug:

Change every occurrence of the word, True, with latarcyrheb-sun16 or latarcyrheb-sun32 in these files:

/boot/grub2/grub.cfg
/etc/sysconfig/i18n
/etc/default/grub

and then run grub2-mkconfig...

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
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I applied all of the above but nothing happened and Fedora start graphically. – XinHua Jan 11 at 9:48
@XinHua Hmmm... What to conclude? This works perfectly for Fedora 17. Did you become root first? – Christopher Jan 11 at 13:52
YES! I do it again and it worked. First time I entered grub2-mkconfig without -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg. – XinHua Jan 11 at 14:20
@XinHua Woo-hoo! Nice catch. – Christopher Jan 11 at 14:21
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Fedora uses systemd for maintaining runlevels

# rm /etc/systemd/system/default.target 
# ln -sf /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target /etc/systemd/system/default.target
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