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I am using RHEL 6.4 on a HP-Z620 Workstation.Whenever this machine starts up, it comes up with Graphics Mode e.g. Splash Screen,Red Hat Logo etc.

But I want my machine to start in Text Mode. e.g. I want my machine showing all Kernel Messages(saying which services are being started).

Previous versions of RHEL provided an option 

Press I for interactive startup

But this version does not provide that. How to get back that feature?

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Reset to default
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Edit /etc/grub.conf back it up first though.

Remove rhgb and quiet

Reboot.

Or just hit the down arrow key when the system boots to switch to no splash.

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    fwiw "quiet" just causes the kernel to not print out as much information. Removal of "rhgb" is sufficient for removing he graphical boot splash. Commented May 4, 2013 at 20:45
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An alternative method is to disable this through plymouth:

plymouth-set-default-plugin text
/usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-update-initrd

If you're interested in more about plymouth check out the references to it below. It's what powers the bootsplash for Red Hat based distros.

References

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