Installing Lion woes

[bango]

i have experience using instadmg (used it to create 10.6 SOE images, deployed fine) and just now have created a OS X 10.7 image.. the problem is when i plug the USB stick containing the instadmg image and boot into the USB and open Disk Utility i select the HD and set the source to the USB and the destination to the HD… that works fine… but then i boot into the HD it loads in the HD recovery partition everytime. i used terminal to see what was going on and the partition containing the OS isn’t listed.
note: i have tried this on two different model devices. these devices are probably 2 years old. OS was originally downloaded from the Mac Store.

does anyone have any ideas?
thanks

[Allister Banks]

You’re restoring your InstaDMG image to the USB you boot from, and imaging the target with that live volume?

Allister

[bango]

thanks for your reply Allister…
yes… thats how i do it
i dont know what im missing… i boot into the USB, open Disk Utility and do my thing with copying the DMG to the HD.. thats works fine, reboot into HD [using Option key] but it always boots into this lion recovery partition [ the Mac OS X Utilities screen] for some strange reason…. like a loop.

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