I replaced a serial ATA drive that caused a SMART before it crashed, so I was able to clone the disk completely. However, when the serial ATA drive is replaced, the drive ID (and therefore device name) changes, so grub fails to boot the OpenSUSE installation which points to a drive ID that was removed. The "repair" option in the installation crashes as well. In stead it should attempt to connect to the device ID and if it is not possible, it should suggest other bootable partitions. The same holds true for setting up partitions in a specific linux installation (etc/fstab), because once grub installation is fixed, OpenSUSE still does not boot completely, because fstab contains entries that references the previous drive's partitions.