Can't boot system--help

I get a message saying

Not enough space to dump xxxxx pages

Press any key to reboot

Safe to power off

After rebooting it never gets to the "Press CTRL D to continue or enter password for single user" message before it goes back to "Not enough space..." message above. Vicious cycle.

I believe the system is SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 (it may be 5.0.4) and I don't know if they have the root & boot floppies. but they do have good backups.