EspHome and esp-01 relay - confusing problem

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I'm trying to program a ESP01s on a relay board, but it won't boot when in the relay board?

Ok… so don’t ask me why but I found a while ago information about… there is a very small resistor on the board (relayboard). If you remove it (solder) it will boot… Think it was this link, not sure my Internet is too slow atm. [How to fix cheap ebay ESP8266 relay module]