In Lion, what do you boot to, to run Disk utility?

I did make a bootable USB drive, but unlike on the Snow Leopard Disk there doesn't seem to be anything to boot to so I can run Disk Utility on my drive. Does anyone know? Thanks.

If you still have SL installed, I would suggest you do a Repair Permission Check with Disk Uitlity and do an upgrade within SL instead of using an USB drive.
Actually Lion upgrade on top of SL is anything like minor update from 10.6.7 to .8. That is why Apple prerequiste is to have your machine running SL with 10.6.8.
If you need to run Disk Utility for any reason, I would definitely suggest you do inside SL and start the upgrade like I said earlier.
Hope this helps.

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