Restore Bad - What did I do wrong?

[NightOne]

Originally Posted by dnanian

And you got the same panic whether you started up from the restored drive *or* the backup drive you'd already successfully started up from?

BOTH. That was the really strange thing. I knew the backup drive was good because I had just booted from it and ran the restore to the internal hard drive. On top of that, I used the backup to migrate over my data once I re-installed Lion.

I was baffled too. It made absolutely no sense that it would not boot from the backup any longer. That is when I called Apple and they told me how to do the Internet Recovery.