config-gerrit: Mention that Elasticsearch must be reachable during init

Bug: Issue 9384
Change-Id: I76bfd56c1bc6b6f7ac094227f76c14b4b249f239
diff --git a/Documentation/config-gerrit.txt b/Documentation/config-gerrit.txt
index 02fec24..e14e041 100644
--- a/Documentation/config-gerrit.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config-gerrit.txt
@@ -2801,6 +2801,9 @@
 merged into the default `_doc` type. The latter is also used for the accounts and
 groups indices starting with Elasticsearch 6.2.
 
+Note that when Gerrit is configured to use Elasticsearch, the Elasticsearch
+server(s) must be reachable during the site initialization.
+
 [[elasticsearch.prefix]]elasticsearch.prefix::
 +
 This setting can be used to prefix index names to allow multiple Gerrit