After restoring imac from time capsule stuck at apple booting screen

Hello Brenden,

Thanks for the link. I have already tried everything in that kink but still getting the same issue.

One clarification if you can help me.

When I replaced my HD, I booted up using Mountain Lion CD.

I went to Disk Utility I paritioned the new drive.

I then went to System Restore and tried to restore from my time capsule a backup from Yosemite, Maverick and Snow Leopard

When imac restarted i was getting messages that it cannot boot up..Same message over and over.

Therefore, I once again went in and booted up using Mountain Lion CD,

Went to Disk Utility and erased all contents of the whole drive. Clean.

This time I went ahead and ran the Mountain Lion Installer.

Imac restarted and booted fine to Mountain lion.

Did all updates and so forth.

Now went to Utilities folder and selected Migration Assistant and chose to restore once more.

Restored finished, and this time I am getting the issue I originally reported.

My question is, since I am running Mountain Lion, if the backup was made using Yosemite, just before my IMAC crashed,

is this the problem why it is stuck at Boot. Because i need to be running Snow Leopard at leat to upgrade to Yosemite.

However, how come none of my backup s can be restored , just by going straight to restore backup instead of installing some mac os x first.

Thanks,