it boots into ssh now, but still no screen or anything, anyway it's progress.

Here's dmesg errors that I found interesting:

[    4.868726] Begin: Running /scripts/nfs-top ... done.
[    4.868854] Begin: Running /scripts/nfs-premount ... done.
[    4.868983] Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ... done.
[    4.869080] Begin: Running /scripts/local-premount ... done.
[    4.887885] initrd: checking filesystem integrity for the userdata partition
[    4.890246] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p42): couldn't mount as ext3 due to feature incompatibilities
[    4.890749] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p42): couldn't mount as ext2 due to feature incompatibilities
[    4.895359] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p42): recovery complete
[    4.895775] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p42): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: errors=remount-ro
[    4.905681] initrd: checking filesystem for userdata took (including e2fsck) 0 seconds
[    4.910537] dumpe2fs 1.43.4 (31-Jan-2017)
[    4.914357] initrd: mounting /dev/mmcblk0p42
[    4.931388] EXT4-fs: Warning: mounting with data=journal disables delayed allocation and O_DIRECT support!
[    4.931414] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p42): couldn't mount as ext3 due to feature incompatibilities
[    4.931917] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p42): Mount option "data=journal" incompatible with ext2
[    4.933713] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p42): mounted filesystem with journalled data mode. Opts: discard,data=journal
[    4.935361] initrd: Halium rootfs is  
[    4.935828] initrd: mounting system rootfs at /halium-system
[    4.936728] initrd: WARNING: Android system image not found.
[    4.936802] initrd: mounting   (user mode)
[    4.937630] mount: can't find /halium-system in /proc/mounts
[    4.937934] initrd: mounting android system image (/tmpmnt/android-rootfs.img) ro, in /android-unknown (unknown mode)
[    4.937996] initrd: mounting android system image from system rootfs
[    4.939391] mount: mounting /halium-system/var/lib/lxc/android/android-rootfs.img on /android-unknown failed: No such file or directory
[    4.939625] initrd: WARNING: Failed to mount Android system.img.
[    4.942987] sed: /android-system/build.prop: No such file or directory
[    4.943219] initrd: Android system image API level is 0
[    4.943272] initrd: boot mode: halium
[    4.943738] initrd: Normal boot
[    4.944373] mount: mounting /halium-system on /root failed: Invalid argument
[    4.946508] mount: mounting /android-rootfs on /root/var/lib/lxc/android/rootfs failed: No such file or directory
[    4.953577] grep: /android-system/build.prop: No such file or directory
[    4.954103] initrd: WARNING: Didn't find a device name. Is the Android system image mounted correctly?
[    4.954152] initrd: device is unknown
[    4.954222] initrd: This rootfs does not have any writable-paths defined
[    4.954313] initrd: checking fstab /root/var/lib/lxc/android/rootfs/fstab* for additional mount points
[    4.956392] cat: can't open '/root/var/lib/lxc/android/rootfs/fstab*': No such file or directory
[    4.959316] initrd: moving Android system to /android/system
[    4.959975] mount: mounting /android-system on /root/android/system failed: Invalid argument
[    4.960331] Begin: Running /scripts/local-bottom ... done.
[    4.960474] done.
[    4.960612] Begin: Running /scripts/nfs-bottom ... done.
[    4.966009] mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such file or directory
[    4.966675] mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such file or directory
[    4.960856] Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ... done.
[    4.967877] mount: mounting /run on /root/run failed: No such file or directory
[    4.968706] run-init: current directory on the same filesystem as the root: Not a typewriter
[    4.968847] Target filesystem doesn't have requested /sbin/init.
[    4.969434] run-init: current directory on the same filesystem as the root: Not a typewriter
[    4.970076] run-init: current directory on the same filesystem as the root: Not a typewriter
[    4.970703] run-init: current directory on the same filesystem as the root: Not a typewriter
[    4.971367] run-init: current directory on the same filesystem as the root: Not a typewriter
[    4.972024] run-init: current directory on the same filesystem as the root: Not a typewriter
[    4.972949] No init found. Try passing init= bootarg.
[    4.975439] enable_store: android_usb: already disabled
[    5.201815] android_work: android_work: sent uevent USB_STATE=CONNECTED

[    6.513015] rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
[    6.513015] sysfs /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
[    6.513015] proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
[    6.513015] udev /dev devtmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,size=1205140k,nr_inodes=301285,mode=755 0 0
[    6.513015] devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000 0 0
[    6.513015] tmpfs /run tmpfs rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=282808k,mode=755 0 0
[    6.513015] /dev/mmcblk0p42 /root/userdata ext4 rw,relatime,discard,nodelalloc,data=journal 0 0
[    6.513015] /dev/mmcblk0p42 /root/android/data ext4 rw,relatime,discard,nodelalloc,data=journal 0 0
[    6.513015] /dev/mmcblk0p42 /root/android/cache ext4 rw,relatime,discard,nodelalloc,data=journal 0 0
[    6.513015] none /config configfs rw,relatime 0 0
[    6.526555] ########################## Beginning inject loop

as you can see /dev/mmcblk0p44 which is the /system partition is not mounted.

Any ideas?

The porter is @Guf hopefully they're still around and can help