Protege M100 won't boot to internal CD, though it's set to in BIOS

Okay I have a Toshiba Protege m100 here I think.
I set the boot priority in the BIOS to like CD-ROM>LAN>FDD>HDD
I reboot, doesn't work. Boots straight to HD and loads the OS.
I also tried pressing escape or whatever to make the boot menu pop up.
I navigate over to the 1 that looks like a single CD disc. I hit enter on it, and it still boots to HD.
The CD rom works. The current OS is Ubuntu. I can go into Ubuntu and look at the windows XP CD...
But it won't let me boot to any cd, it doesn't even look like it tries to search for one. Doesn't make the sound or the clicking noise.
(and for the record, I'm going from Ubuntu to XP for work, not personal preference lol).
Edit: Oh yeah I had to turn the LAN network card off in the bios because the boot priority would skip the cd again anyway, and search the lan for a connection or something... So with it off, yeah, it skips the LAN too now, to boot from HD.
Message was edited by: chriswf

In my opinion in BIOS you should set HDD as first bootable device.
For some reason if you need to use other device as first bootable device you can choose it manually in boot menu when you use F12 at start-up.

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