In my limited experience with OCLP, upgrades on some Macs require careful attention. Make sure that on each reboot, hold the Option key, and make sure that you select the EFI partition on your drive, then make sure that OCLP is then using the corrent partition to finish the install. It will (usually) have the correct partition pre-selected, BUT always make sure that you manually choose that EFI partition as the first choice on each restart.
Can I ask you...? What do you mean by "the machine stacks"? Do you get an error pop-up of some kind? What exactly happens, or what do you see?