I was in the same boat not that long ago. In vCD 1.5 and 5.1 there's no way to set any kind of VM boot settings or force to go to BIOS, and you're pretty much stuck setting those through vSphere/vCenter. The one thing I never got around to testing though was to see if you could permanently set the boot order to go CD first, then HDD, and then also see if that change would persist through VM reboots in vCD, as vCD tends to overwrite changes made to the VM "underneath" vCD.
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