I've installed CentOS 7 via the standard New... action in Parallels Desktop. I've gotten logged in, and have, for various reasons, turned off the GNOME / graphical boot system, such that the image boots up in a good ol' character command line window. This is working fine, except that the characters are REAL big; I haven't counted, but it looks like an 80x24 display. If I resize the window, I just get bigger characters. Is there a way to get smaller, and thus more, characters? FWIW, I'm on a MacBook Pro with a Retina display and a secondary monitor. I get the same big character when the CentOS window is on either display. Thanks!
Found, finally: Add the following to /etc/default/grub: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="vga=795" Then, update the grub cfg files: grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg # grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/centos/grub.cfg More here, including what "795" means (it produces a 1280x1024x24 display) and some alternatives to it: https://glenewhittenberg.blogspot.com/2015/07/centos-7-show-startup-messages-and.html https://www.itechlounge.net/2016/10...n-and-boot-video-resolution-on-centos-rhel-7/