Yes. Bonehoard creates a 0/0 token and subsequently attaches the equipment to it. The token is 0/0 long enough for Mentor of the Meek to see it enter as a creature with power 2 or less.
Triggered abilities trigger instantaneously as soon as the triggering action occurs. They don't wait for a spell or ability to finish resolving before they check to see whether they should trigger.
603.2. Whenever a game event or game state matches a triggered ability's trigger event, that ability automatically triggers. The ability doesn't do anything at this point.
The difference between Bonehoard and the examples shown on Sword of the Meek's rulings is that with Bonehoard, there actually is a point where the game state sees a 0/0 creature entering the battlefield. The creation of the token and attaching Bonehoard to it are two separate actions. The reason why the 0/0 token doesn't immediately die is that the two actions are done as part of the same resolving ability, and state-based actions aren't checked until afterward. (SBAs and trigger conditions don't follow the same mechanics.)
By comparison, a creature entering the battlefield with counters on it, as with Triskelion, or a creature entering the battlefield while there is a static effect that changes power and/or toughness, like with Llanowar Elves with Gaea's Anthem, never actually has the printed power and toughness as it enters the battlefield.
I was under the impression that if at any time a creature had a toughness of 0, even for a split second, that it would fizzle... BUT now that I'm reading living weapons closer, it says
"When this Equipment enters the battlefield, put a 0/0 black Germ creature token onto the battlefield, then attach this to it."
In magic terms that would mean that somehow, a 0/0 token entered the battlefield, then had an equipment attached to this.
Am I allowed to put out a 2/2 creature, and then immediately attach an equipment (such as bonehoard with 3 creatures in graveyard) and have it survive?
No. The reason living weapon creatures don't die is because creatures with 0 toughness are only put into the graveyard when state-based actions are checked. SBAs aren't checked during the resolution of abilities, and the living weapon ability creates the 0/0 creature and attaches equipment to it during the resolution of a single ability. When SBAs are checked, the creature already has equipment attached.
In your Elesh Norn example, a player would receive priority in between the creature entering the battlefield and the creature getting equipped, which means SBAs are also checked. The creature would die.
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I play a bonehoard with 3 creatures in the graveyard
since living weapon puts a 0/0 creature into play does that trigger mentor of the meek?
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The difference between Bonehoard and the examples shown on Sword of the Meek's rulings is that with Bonehoard, there actually is a point where the game state sees a 0/0 creature entering the battlefield. The creation of the token and attaching Bonehoard to it are two separate actions. The reason why the 0/0 token doesn't immediately die is that the two actions are done as part of the same resolving ability, and state-based actions aren't checked until afterward. (SBAs and trigger conditions don't follow the same mechanics.)
By comparison, a creature entering the battlefield with counters on it, as with Triskelion, or a creature entering the battlefield while there is a static effect that changes power and/or toughness, like with Llanowar Elves with Gaea's Anthem, never actually has the printed power and toughness as it enters the battlefield.
"When this Equipment enters the battlefield, put a 0/0 black Germ creature token onto the battlefield, then attach this to it."
In magic terms that would mean that somehow, a 0/0 token entered the battlefield, then had an equipment attached to this.
My question is this...
If my opponent has a Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite
(creatures your opponents control get -2/-2)
Am I allowed to put out a 2/2 creature, and then immediately attach an equipment (such as bonehoard with 3 creatures in graveyard) and have it survive?
In your Elesh Norn example, a player would receive priority in between the creature entering the battlefield and the creature getting equipped, which means SBAs are also checked. The creature would die.