text vs. graphical boot

[Andre Robatino]

  This is probably a dumb question, but how do I get back the text boot
while preserving the graphical login?  Also, I noticed that the shutdown is
still text-based (that is, when I can actually see the messages, often only
the last few are visible - this has been an intermittent problem for years).
Shouldn't both startup and shutdown be the same type, for symmetry?