No, we always print that message off if there is not a TPM, and we don’t build/publish images that require a TPM (that would be grade secured, we only publish grade signed and grade dangerous images).
Can you boot ubuntu desktop live on this machine and run some commands to determine what storage driver is needed for this device ? See Ubuntu Core VMWare install fails - SCSI not recognized, NVMe so là là, SATA stable - #23 by ijohnson