Restore Bad - What did I do wrong?

[NightOne]

Originally Posted by dnanian

I don't know, since the backup was just fine when you booted from it initially. Perhaps the kernel panic indicates a system problem? Where was the panic?

(Note that after Lion is restored, and it asks you if you want to restore, do so from the SuperDuper! backup - you can point to it.)

The panic was happening right after powering on. I could hold down the option key and select a drive to boot from but it had the panic stop regardless of which one I chose.

I do have Lion re-installed via the recovery mechanism. It only took 3 hours. When it started I did choose to migrate from a disk and chose the Super Duper backup drive. It copied everything over. (another 3 hours) Things are mostly working today. I've had to reinstall applications such as Parallels and Spotlight indexing is taking forever but at least I have everything.

I can't seem to run Apple Hardware Test which is what started this debacle. Not feeling good about what happened but once again SuperDuper saves my ass by keeping me from losing data.