Tecra M1: F12 boot menu doesn't start

Hi.
I have a big problem. After I formated the harddrive for reinstalling XP. I can not enter the Toshiba HW Setup and change the boot-priorities.
If I start the Notebook, it first try to boot the empty HDD, exit with the error-message: "can t find NTLDR" and it doesn't try to boot the DVD-drive.

@Jeffery:
Thx a lot. This was exactly the same problem and the same way I solved the problem now.
- On a second PC-system with FDD:
1. Create an win98 Bootdisk, download Wipeout and copy the unziped wipeout.exe on the bootdisk
2. Install the Toshi HDD as C:/
3. Boot up with a win98 Bootdisk
4. Unlock the HDD with LOCK C:
5. Run WIPEOUT C:
6. Restart and boot with win98 CD
7. Run the Setup till all files are copied and shut down the PC. It should be at the first Setup-Restart-Message.
8. Reinstall the HDD at the Toshi and continue the Installation.
And now I m able to Install XP. :)

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There were reports of efibootmgr damaging Mac firmware several months ago (I believe over a year ago). Since then I've seen claims that this problem has been fixed with recent kernels (3.0 and later, IIRC), but I've seen no substantiation one way or the other. Overall, I recommend caution....
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