diff --git a/classes/selinux-image.bbclass b/classes/selinux-image.bbclass
index 362ca5c..9303610 100644
--- a/classes/selinux-image.bbclass
+++ b/classes/selinux-image.bbclass
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 selinux_set_labels () {
-    POL_TYPE=$(sed -n -e "s&SELINUXTYPE[:space:]*=[:space:]*\([0-9A-Za-z_]\+\)&\1&p" ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/${sysconfdir}/selinux/config)
+    POL_TYPE=$(sed -n -e "s&^SELINUXTYPE[[:space:]]*=[[:space:]]*\([0-9A-Za-z_]\+\)&\1&p" ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/${sysconfdir}/selinux/config)
     setfiles -r ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/${sysconfdir}/selinux/${POL_TYPE}/contexts/files/file_contexts ${IMAGE_ROOTFS} || exit 1;
 }