Comment 12 for bug 1740026

Just had the same bug show up on lubuntu 18.05 trying to install on a small Atom computer. Same device, "H8G4a" suffixed by the unicode character.
Took a while to get around the issue. Ended up using a different PC to install lubuntu to a small partition on a portable HDD. Then using Clonezilla I imaged that drive and wrote the image to the embedded eMMC, followed by growing the partition into unallocated space.
I could not use the Atom computer to install to the other drive as the eMMC is non-removable. As soon as the installer looks for storage devices it hangs.
I could not work out a way disable the device or otherwise exclude the drive from the device list.
Clonezilla repeatably reported issues parsing the device name as well, but was able to proceed. Only impact being that in the device list the eMMC appeared as "emmcblk0 <default name>" or something like that.