If you hate the new graphical boot sequence in Fedora, here's a simple trick to go back to the good old text startup.
In GRUB, highlight the entry for Fedora and press 'e'
Find the line that is something along the lines of:
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667smp ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
remove 'rhgb' from that line so it looks more like this:
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667smp ro root=LABEL=/1 quiet
Then go back and press 'b' while highlighted on that entry to boot without graphical boot.
Keep in mind this is temporary. To permanently disable graphical boot, find the same line under /etc/grub.conf and make the same changes to it.
In GRUB, highlight the entry for Fedora and press 'e'
Find the line that is something along the lines of:
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667smp ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
remove 'rhgb' from that line so it looks more like this:
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667smp ro root=LABEL=/1 quiet
Then go back and press 'b' while highlighted on that entry to boot without graphical boot.
Keep in mind this is temporary. To permanently disable graphical boot, find the same line under /etc/grub.conf and make the same changes to it.