diff --git a/vllm/config/model.py b/vllm/config/model.py
index b8c601334..c4ee654fe 100644
--- a/vllm/config/model.py
+++ b/vllm/config/model.py
@@ -948,6 +948,7 @@ class ModelConfig:
                 # imports during override detection (e.g., MXFP4 imports Triton)
                 "mxfp4",
                 "cpu_awq",
+                "gguf",
             ]
             quantization_methods = [
                 q for q in supported_quantization if q not in overrides
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization/gguf.py b/vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization/gguf.py
index 88023349e..145610e9c 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization/gguf.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization/gguf.py
@@ -3,7 +3,10 @@
 
 from collections.abc import Mapping
 from types import MappingProxyType
-from typing import Any
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from vllm.model_executor.layers.quantization import QuantizationMethods
 
 import gguf
 import torch
@@ -79,6 +82,16 @@ class GGUFConfig(QuantizationConfig):
     def from_config(cls, config: dict[str, Any]) -> "GGUFConfig":
         return cls()
 
+    @classmethod
+    def override_quantization_method(
+        cls, hf_quant_cfg: dict[str, Any], user_quant: str | None
+    ) -> "QuantizationMethods | None":
+        # When user explicitly specifies --quantization gguf, override
+        # whatever quantization method is in the HF model config (e.g. fp8).
+        if user_quant == "gguf":
+            return "gguf"
+        return None
+
     def get_quant_method(
         self, layer: torch.nn.Module, prefix: str
     ) -> "QuantizeMethodBase | None":
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/model_loader/gguf_loader.py b/vllm/model_executor/model_loader/gguf_loader.py
index 75d0b3425..ce6a813b8 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/model_loader/gguf_loader.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/model_loader/gguf_loader.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ from vllm.model_executor.model_loader.weight_utils import (
     get_gguf_extra_tensor_names,
     get_gguf_weight_type_map,
     gguf_quant_weights_iterator,
+    gguf_quant_weights_iterator_multi,
 )
 from vllm.transformers_utils.gguf_utils import detect_gguf_multimodal
 from vllm.utils.torch_utils import set_default_torch_dtype
@@ -74,6 +75,31 @@ class GGUFModelLoader(BaseModelLoader):
             "or <repo_id>:<quant_type>)"
         )
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def _get_all_gguf_files(model_path: str) -> list[str]:
+        """Discover all GGUF shard files from a single shard path.
+
+        Supports variable-width shard indices by dynamically detecting
+        the padding from the original filename.
+        E.g. ``*-00001-of-00005.gguf`` → all 5 shards,
+             ``*-01-of-15.gguf`` → all 15 shards.
+        """
+        match = re.search(r"-(\d+)-of-(\d+)\.gguf$", model_path)
+        if not match:
+            return [model_path]
+        total = int(match.group(2))
+        num_digits = len(match.group(1))
+        prefix = model_path[: match.start(1)]
+        suffix = model_path[match.end(2) :]
+        files = []
+        for i in range(1, total + 1):
+            shard_path = f"{prefix}{i:0{num_digits}d}-of-{total:0{num_digits}d}{suffix}"
+            if os.path.isfile(shard_path):
+                files.append(shard_path)
+        if files:
+            logger.info("Discovered %d GGUF shard files", len(files))
+        return files if files else [model_path]
+
     def _get_gguf_weights_map(self, model_config: ModelConfig):
         """
         GGUF uses this naming convention for their tensors from HF checkpoint:
@@ -145,6 +171,29 @@ class GGUFModelLoader(BaseModelLoader):
                         r"\.mlp\.experts\.[0-9]+\.(gate|up|down)_proj\.weight"
                     )
                 )
+        if model_type == "minimax_m2":
+            model_type = "minimax-m2"
+            # GGUF layer map assumes merged expert weights
+            # map them manually like deepseek2
+            for idx in range(config.num_hidden_layers):
+                gguf_to_hf_name_map[f"blk.{idx}.exp_probs_b.bias"] = (
+                    f"model.layers.{idx}.block_sparse_moe.e_score_correction_bias"
+                )
+                gguf_to_hf_name_map[f"blk.{idx}.ffn_down_exps.weight"] = (
+                    f"model.layers.{idx}.block_sparse_moe.experts.0.w2.weight"
+                )
+                gguf_to_hf_name_map[f"blk.{idx}.ffn_gate_exps.weight"] = (
+                    f"model.layers.{idx}.block_sparse_moe.experts.0.w1.weight"
+                )
+                gguf_to_hf_name_map[f"blk.{idx}.ffn_up_exps.weight"] = (
+                    f"model.layers.{idx}.block_sparse_moe.experts.0.w3.weight"
+                )
+                sideload_params.append(
+                    re.compile(
+                        f"model\\.layers\\.{idx}"
+                        r"\.block_sparse_moe\.experts\.(gate_up_proj|down_proj)"
+                    )
+                )
 
         arch = None
         for key, value in gguf.MODEL_ARCH_NAMES.items():
@@ -190,6 +239,13 @@ class GGUFModelLoader(BaseModelLoader):
                 revert_hf_rename(name): tensor for name, tensor in state_dict.items()
             }
 
+        if model_type == "minimax-m2" and not hf_checkpoint_map:
+            # Reverse HF convention: mlp -> block_sparse_moe
+            state_dict = {
+                name.replace(".mlp.", ".block_sparse_moe."): tensor
+                for name, tensor in state_dict.items()
+            }
+
         def find_hf_name_in_tensor_map(hf_name: str) -> str | None:
             """
             Map HuggingFace parameter name to GGUF tensor name.
@@ -277,9 +333,10 @@ class GGUFModelLoader(BaseModelLoader):
         model_name_or_path: str,
         gguf_to_hf_name_map: dict[str, str],
     ) -> dict[str, str]:
-        weight_type_map = get_gguf_weight_type_map(
-            model_name_or_path, gguf_to_hf_name_map
-        )
+        gguf_files = self._get_all_gguf_files(model_name_or_path)
+        weight_type_map = {}
+        for f in gguf_files:
+            weight_type_map.update(get_gguf_weight_type_map(f, gguf_to_hf_name_map))
         is_multimodal = hasattr(model_config.hf_config, "vision_config")
         if is_multimodal:
             mmproj_file = detect_gguf_multimodal(model_name_or_path)
@@ -321,7 +378,15 @@ class GGUFModelLoader(BaseModelLoader):
             )
             yield from gguf_quant_weights_iterator(mmproj_file, gguf_to_hf_name_map)
 
-        yield from gguf_quant_weights_iterator(model_name_or_path, gguf_to_hf_name_map)
+        gguf_files = self._get_all_gguf_files(model_name_or_path)
+        if len(gguf_files) > 1:
+            yield from gguf_quant_weights_iterator_multi(
+                gguf_files, gguf_to_hf_name_map
+            )
+        else:
+            yield from gguf_quant_weights_iterator(
+                model_name_or_path, gguf_to_hf_name_map
+            )
 
     def download_model(self, model_config: ModelConfig) -> None:
         self._prepare_weights(model_config)
@@ -340,9 +405,11 @@ class GGUFModelLoader(BaseModelLoader):
         local_model_path = self._prepare_weights(model_config)
         gguf_weights_map = self._get_gguf_weights_map(model_config)
         # we can only know if tie word embeddings after mapping weights
-        if "lm_head.weight" in get_gguf_extra_tensor_names(
-            local_model_path, gguf_weights_map
-        ):
+        gguf_files = self._get_all_gguf_files(local_model_path)
+        all_extra_names = []
+        for f in gguf_files:
+            all_extra_names.extend(get_gguf_extra_tensor_names(f, gguf_weights_map))
+        if "lm_head.weight" in all_extra_names:
             model_config.hf_config.update({"tie_word_embeddings": True})
 
         weight_type_map = self._get_gguf_weight_type(
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/model_loader/weight_utils.py b/vllm/model_executor/model_loader/weight_utils.py
index 37023d3f1..bd1dd2001 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/model_loader/weight_utils.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/model_loader/weight_utils.py
@@ -1222,6 +1222,49 @@ def gguf_quant_weights_iterator(
             yield name, param
 
 
+def gguf_quant_weights_iterator_multi(
+    gguf_files: list[str], gguf_to_hf_name_map: dict[str, str]
+) -> Generator[tuple[str, torch.Tensor], None, None]:
+    """
+    Iterate over the quant weights across multiple GGUF shard files
+    and convert them to torch tensors.
+
+    Like gguf_quant_weights_iterator, we yield all weight types first
+    before yielding any weights data to avoid issues with packed layers
+    that have different quant types.
+    """
+    readers = [gguf.GGUFReader(f) for f in gguf_files]
+
+    # First pass: yield all weight types across all shards
+    for reader in readers:
+        for tensor in reader.tensors:
+            if tensor.name in gguf_to_hf_name_map:
+                weight_type = tensor.tensor_type
+                name = gguf_to_hf_name_map[tensor.name]
+                if weight_type.name not in ("F32", "BF16", "F16"):
+                    weight_type_name = name.replace("weight", "qweight_type")
+                    weight_type = torch.tensor(weight_type)
+                    yield weight_type_name, weight_type
+
+    # Second pass: yield all weight data across all shards
+    for reader in readers:
+        for tensor in reader.tensors:
+            if tensor.name in gguf_to_hf_name_map:
+                weight = tensor.data
+                weight_type = tensor.tensor_type
+                name = gguf_to_hf_name_map[tensor.name]
+                if weight_type.name not in ("F32", "BF16", "F16"):
+                    name = name.replace("weight", "qweight")
+                if weight_type.name == "BF16" and tensor.data.dtype == np.uint8:
+                    weight = weight.view(np.uint16)
+                    if reader.byte_order == "S":
+                        weight = weight.byteswap()
+                    param = torch.tensor(weight).view(torch.bfloat16)
+                else:
+                    param = torch.tensor(weight)
+                yield name, param
+
+
 def convert_pyslice_to_tensor(x: Any) -> torch.Tensor:
     """convert PySafeSlice object from safetensors to torch.Tensor
 
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/minimax_m2.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/minimax_m2.py
index 426caea1f..0f43bc0cd 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/models/minimax_m2.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/models/minimax_m2.py
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ class MiniMaxM2Model(nn.Module):
             self.embed_tokens = VocabParallelEmbedding(
                 config.vocab_size,
                 config.hidden_size,
-                quant_config=None,
+                quant_config=quant_config,
                 prefix=f"{prefix}.embed_tokens",
             )
         else:
@@ -518,7 +518,10 @@ class MiniMaxM2ForCausalLM(nn.Module, SupportsLoRA, SupportsPP):
         )
         if get_pp_group().is_last_rank:
             self.lm_head = ParallelLMHead(
-                config.vocab_size, config.hidden_size, quant_config=None
+                config.vocab_size,
+                config.hidden_size,
+                quant_config=quant_config,
+                prefix=maybe_prefix(prefix, "lm_head"),
             )
         else:
             self.lm_head = PPMissingLayer()