What is the recommended method of disabling graphical boot splash screen and GUI login?

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Unfortunately, it turned out that the GUI login does not work.

So I kindly ask, what is the recommended method for Almalinux to…

a) …deactivate the graphical login, so the system boots directly into the traditional text virtual console?

b) …disable the splash screen?(it is annoying to me, particularly if system becomes unresponsive while booting and ESC no longer has an effect.)

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We tell the system to do so with:

systemctl set-default multi-user.target
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Great, now the graphical login screen is gone.

But there is still the spinner splashscreen hiding the boot messages. I think it is called Plymouth. How to deactivate this correctly?

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Remove quiet & splash from your boot parameters (I assume you use grub) from GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT & (if they are also set) GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub and then run grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

Or with grubby: https://linux.die.net/man/8/grubby

grubby --update-kernel ALL --remove-args='quiet'
grubby --update-kernel ALL --remove-args='splash'

You can then optionally uninstall plymouth if you want.

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